#10 00 sized Bubinga and Sinker Redwood, with cocobolo bindi

[Jackspt28]

Beautiful Job. Love the look of redwood/ Bubinga combo. What type of wood are the bindings? Thanks Jack.

[John Parchem]

Beautiful Job. Love the look of redwood/ Bubinga combo. What type of wood are the bindings? Thanks Jack.

Thanks, The binding are Cocobolo with a white fiber purfling. I was sort of going with red to tie everything together.

Tony, thanks for your kind comments.

[Herman]

As always John, great looks because of great skills. Stunning Bubinga. Sorry about no backstrip (LOL).

So you number your guitars from now on too? Don't hit a number bottom up! It's an ungggely repair. Ask me how I know!

Herman

[TonyinNYC]

I forgot to mention the excellent, excellent job you did book matching the back. Whenever I get a match so close, I don't want to use a back strip. You gots to let the wood do the talking and this one says, "Look at me. Touch me. Loooove me." Or something like that. I don't know for sure because I don't speak wood, but I do know that I like what I see.

[John Parchem]

Don't tell anyone, but I avoid the center strip because I have had trouble with it in the past :0. When gluing it on full depth I ran into trouble with the tape method (I now use a joining jig) when I tried to route a center strip for inlay on an earlier guitar my guide was not set right, ... ultimately I had enough room to plane it off and just glue the plates. With this guitar I did deliberately decide to join the plates because I liked the match.