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Old 06-10-2019, 11:14 AM
redir redir is offline
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It's not very difficult to glue the top and the back to the rims with perfection. I'm perhaps not understanding what you are saying. When ever I glue the top to the rims then rout the over hang flush there are no gaps at all. I have never not bound a guitar though I have one potential customer asking me to do just that on a guitar that he wants simply because he likes the way that it looks. It's usually something you see on cheaper guitars and it can look kind of cool in a functional art aesthetic I suppose, iow you can see whats going on there. But it's not at all difficult to do.

Some people when they cut the shelves in the linings for the braces just cut right through the sides but you don't have to do that.

The binding does serve a purpose in that it protects the end grain and edge of the guitar.
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