[Woodenhead]

Originally Posted by Bruce Sexauer

Many people seem to fail to appreciate the role of the binding AND the purfling. The binding should be hard enough to take a fairly good blow without denting or deformaing in any way. The danger then is that the shock is transferred into the glued structure of the guitar body, where it could easily do more meaningful damage than the superficial dent would have been. This is the role of the purfling, which should be made of a softer material that is resilient enough to absorb the blow without passing the shock on.

Thank you for this.
cheers, Steve