Daylighters and binding...

Today we made a bunch of Maple and Wenge binding strips and started binding and gluing fretboards down.

Strips of binding material

We made this jig for trimming binding to length on the end of the fretboard.

Test fitting a few strips

End pieces glued on

This jig is notched to clamp the binding into place.

All clamped up and waiting for the glue to set.

Once the glue was set we drilled the side dots, put them in, scraped them flush and started getting ready to glue fretboards down.

Before putting them into the clamping jigs we knocked the binding down to fretboard height.

Rosewood and Wenge...

Wenge and Maple

There we go. Can't WAIT to pull them out of the clamps tomorrow.