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by MountGower
Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:08 am
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How secure is binding?
Replies: 8
Views: 7783

Re: How secure is binding?

Thanks for the replies everyone and sorry not to get back before this. I appreciate how ridiculous this all sounds from the start. I have wasted too much time trying to find a perfectly comfortable and light hard tail to use as a work horse while I am relearning after so many years and now with a fe...
by MountGower
Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:13 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How secure is binding?
Replies: 8
Views: 7783

Re: How secure is binding?

Can I give some quick background. I have two old Yamaha guitars. A Pacifica604W and an RGX612A. They have sat in their boxes for 20 years while I spend nearly all day every Saturday sitting on a bike seat and riding to work as much as I could. I wouldn't say I crashed much, but I did so many KMs and...
by MountGower
Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:35 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How secure is binding?
Replies: 8
Views: 7783

Re: How secure is binding?

Thanks. I'm pretty sure you are correct. If you overlay a stratocaster or pacifica in your mind, looking front on, it's the protrusion at the top rear which is unfortunately stopping the blood flow to the hand region. I don't want to sound like a first world victim, but if this turns out to be the w...
by MountGower
Tue Oct 23, 2018 7:48 pm
Forum: Instrument Builders Forum
Topic: How secure is binding?
Replies: 8
Views: 7783

How secure is binding?

G'day, I hope I have not posted this in the wrong place or forum. I am not a luthier or even pretending to be, but this seems the best place to ask this question. I have an LTD MH401NT. I will not bore you with what I really think of that huge chunk of wood they have neglected to remove at the top r...