A kitchen cutting board makes a great binding jig!
Issue 195 July 18, 2013
Dan Erlewine modifies a plastic cutting board from Walmart to solve a guitar binding problem. He needs four matching pieces of black-white-black binding, and he shows a clever trick for doing this. From the free Trade Secrets newsletter at stewmac.com
- This idea came from mandolin maker Don MacRostie
- Hot Tip! Heat-forming the tight curves before any gluing
- Hot Tip! Make-it-yourself tool for perfect miter joints
- Cleaning the binding with sandpaper and scrapers