We'll put the binding in place and tape it down with some of that strapping tape.
When I say that I really lean into that tape, I am not kidding. You can see my pudgy little fingers straining!
Now we just work our way around toward the neck pocket.
Notice that the end of the piece of purfling in is sight? The binding is long enough that one piece will go around the top. Not so with the purfling. That is only about 20" long. We need to splice it together.
So I took some time to prep the next piece and cut some more tape.
Oh oh! When I came back, the stuff on the guitar had already stuck in place. Which of course is just what we want it to do. But this was the
WRONG place!
Well, I haven't spent my life teaching HS science for nothing, and to top it off, I watch Mr. Wizard every Saturday when I was a kid. So I know that a little acetone will loosen those stuck pieces right up!
Funny how I just happened to have that handy.