Binding Day

After closing to boxes the next thing to do was binding. After all the preparation is done it takes blood (sometimes), sweat (all the time) and tears (hopefully not...only if the fit isn't perfect or mitres don't join properly) ... and a lot of tape.
It is one of the harder jobs in guitar making which there aren't a lot of but this certainly is one of the hard parts, forcing the binding and purfling into place and perfectly fitting along all the contours of the guitar body. But taking off the tape the next day feels like unwrapping a Christmas present...or it ends up in tears (see above)...

  
Binding is done. Time for a coffee.