Pretty much done with the binding...mistakes and all...so let's wrap up the pictures.
We have to put some more purfling in place. Have you ever seen a pearl bound guitar? Ever wonder how they get that pearl to "bend" around the curvves? Well, sometimes it is cut to shape...but that is wasteful. More often the pearl is just broken to fit around the curves. Those curves are made up of short pieces of straight pearl...and you have never noticed!
We can do the same thing here. To help the checkerboard "bend" around the curves we can break the glue that is holding the checks together.
Sneaky...but it works.
Then we'll tape glue and tape it in place. We'll put some real muscle into that tape.
and we'll work our way down into the cutaway.
