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EddieLee
 Post subject: Making Purfling
PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 3:44 pm 
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This is my first try at making (at least in part) purfling. I have a 55 mil strip of cherry and I want to glue a piece of 20 mil thick BW purfling to side. What is the best way to do that?

I am leaning toward using CA. If I use CA will it still bend ok in a bender with a heat blanket?

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Tim McKnight
 Post subject: Re: Making Purfling
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Titebond III works well.

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+1 on titebond III. I have bent split side pieces glued with CA, the glue held okay but the fumes were very irritating while bending.

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titebond original is fine too .. all I use except fish glue on coco ...

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 Post subject: Re: Making Purfling
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Thanks, but if you use titebond, how do you clamp up any thing that small. My thought is to assemble the cherry strip and the 2 BW strips and then bend it. That way I will have only the binding and 2 pieces of purfling to deal with when I bind the guitar. If I do not per-assemble it, I will have the binding plus 5 pieces of purfling flopping around during binding. That seem like a nightmare.

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Hi,
Have a look at this setup :
http://www.grellier.fr/article.php?id=6&lang=en
maybe it could help ?

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 Post subject: Re: Making Purfling
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Thanks Chrisrophe. I think I could make something like that work.

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This thread is helpful to me as well. Any other approaches to glueing the purfling to the binding prior to bending?

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One way is to laminate a board of whatever height you want your binding and at least 3" wide with a layer of veneer then slice off pieces of appropriate width. That way I get enough for several guitars. I use fish glue.

Here's one with the single layer of veneer.
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Edit: I should have read the original post closer - this won't help if you're trying to do narrow strips.


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