The binding is done. I have been making my own purflings (those strips of color inside the binding) by laminating dyed wood veneers, and cutting them into small purfling strips with a very fine blade on the bandsaw. This allows me to make any color combination I, or the customer, wants.
Black-red-black purfling with sycamore binding on the redwood topped soprano. Black-white-black with bocote binding on the sycamore topped concert. Black-green-black with koa binding on the spruce topped tenor (with the roots). Blue-orange-blue with sycamore binding onthe redwood topped tenor.
Now it is on to neck work, making fingerboards, and then doing the inlay. Three out of these four are ‘specials’ and will get pretty extensive inlay.
