Weather and life in general can sure 'nuff pull you away from the "important" things!
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Well I decided to go with tortoise binding so I laid in the butt wedge,
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And to show you I did get something accomplished during our loooong wet spell, here's my new Ribbecke type binding machine. I believe Chris Paulick had a thread on these on OLF and linked these photos at http://www.doolinguitars.com/articles/bindrout/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. I really believe I like the design of Dave White's variation of the Williams jig best, but I had everything on hand to build this one, so, here's mine.
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This is my first time to use it, I've always just handheld the router before and wow is this nice!
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So this is also my first time to do purfling. Just routing binding ledges with a handheld router was risk enough. This really takes a lot of the trauma out of routing ledges.
Binding and purfs next,
Joe