peteclancymusic

Thanks Bill - a lot of the credit goes to my girlfriend, who unbeknownst to me at the time, has great skills in woodworking and painting, as I found out. It was a great project to do together. I know what you mean about buying another guitar, but I specifically wanted to keep this guitar, as it's lightweight and relatively inexpensive - perfect for my bung shoulder and as a gig workhorse!

Here's an epic bump - inspired by this thread, I recently did the same thing with my 2012 Studio 50's Tribute. Not only the faux binding, but the whole back and neck (didn't touch the front). It was great fun. Here's the back before I started: With the paint stripped and wood sanded: After a coat of the mahogany stain I bought at Bunnings: Ready for spraying 2 clear coats all over the guitar (you can see where the maple cap was left unpainted): The finished back: The finished front with the faux binding: Was pretty happy with it for a first effort. 2 things I'd improve if I did it all again would be to round the corner of the faux binding off more to give it "depth" as noted by the original poster, and to spend more time really sanding all the residue of the original coat off - this would give a more pure effect to the new coat, especially around the sides. Here it is in action (with different pickups): https://youtu.be/axWGIQxvqtsv