Now time to cut some channels for the binding.
Here's what I will be using. The world's worst router, and a set of Grizzly adjustable rabbeting cutters.
Here is the bad boy that will do the cutting. A carbide cutter with a pilot bearing. The set comes with a selection of bearings. One of them gives a cut that is the same thickness as the binding. There is a machine screw that goes into the top of the shaft that holds everything in place. Got to get it tight. That little fellow has spun loose on me a few times in the past. It gets lost in the sawdust, the bearing goes flying, and the cutter takes a big chunk of wood that you would rather have stay in the guitar. Not an entirely pleasant event.
Before I actually take the cutter to the guitar body, we make a sample cut in a piece of scrap. A short piece of binding fits nicely. I have measured twice and cut once. Norm will be happy.
With the cutter in the router and the body securely clamped to my workbench (aka a radial arm saw table) I am ready to make that first cut.
