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i have an idea how to apply binding very easy to any epiphone guitar

 

what do u think about this product

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Supply-White-Markers-Medium/dp/B01NBNMJIR/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=PEN+OIL+BASED+MARKER&qid=1552945845&s=gateway&sr=8-4

 

 

does any one try it ? or i should be the first one to buy and use on guitar :-)

 

Thanks,

 

Yahli.

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no - i think it can be used as binding for F holes.

 

I think it could look ok to paint the inside edges of unbound f-holes black- but that would be easier with a small brush. I wouldn't try painting any kind of "binding" line on the outside edge- no matter how careful you are, it will look like crap. You can't paint a line as sharp as scraped binding.

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In the mid 80s I had a 1955 ES-295 that was a basket case. I refinished it (okay). It got passed around a couple years until I traded it even for a 1967(?) ES-335. Someone had painted the 335 a deep maroon, deeper than the typical Gibson wine red. They painted it binding and all. I did some research and turned out a friend had owned it and sanded it too vigorously....ruining some of the binding, ergo the paint job. Nowadays we would have just called it a 335 Studio of some sort. I stripped it and determined the binding was indeed too far gone. I traded it off and the next guy painted it Chuck Berry Red and added pinstriping tape for binding. What a mess. It looked fine from 20 feet away. Until a few gigs later when the tape started peeling off. In retrospect, it should have been left with the gloppy maroon paint job and played with reckless abandon.

 

In 1984 I bought a '67 Fender Coronado that had been painted red with a splash of gold glitter. My intention was to strip it to natural and clearcoat it. But the stripper softened the binding and the red paint bled into it. So I had a stripped-to-blonde body with pink binding. I masked it off and painted a topcoat of white onto the binding and then clearcoated the whole thing. Looked fine.

 

In the winter of 1986-87 I was unemployed with zero money coming in. I heated the house with a kerosene heater because I had no oil for the furnace. I ended up with the Coronado body again, which someone had begun sanding. The neck was long gone, added to a Strat body (another story). I had a 1963 Jaguar neck, the Coronado body, which I painted black, one P90, one PAF humbucker (yes I know it would pay off my mortgage now), a floating 60s Japanese bridge and a tailpiece. I rigged up pots and a switch and made it work. It was a mongrel but it played. And looked kinda cool in a goth rockabilly way. I sold it for $150 and that money made that month's house payment with enough left over to buy a bag of groceries.

 

I don't miss the 'good old days'. I was scared a lot.

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I think it could look ok to paint the inside edges of unbound f-holes black- but that would be easier with a small brush. I wouldn't try painting any kind of "binding" line on the outside edge- no matter how careful you are, it will look like crap. You can't paint a line as sharp as scraped binding.

 

 

Thanks , good advice !

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In the mid 80s I had a 1955 ES-295 that was a basket case. I refinished it (okay). It got passed around a couple years until I traded it even for a 1967(?) ES-335. Someone had painted the 335 a deep maroon, deeper than the typical Gibson wine red. They painted it binding and all. I did some research and turned out a friend had owned it and sanded it too vigorously....ruining some of the binding, ergo the paint job. Nowadays we would have just called it a 335 Studio of some sort. I stripped it and determined the binding was indeed too far gone. I traded it off and the next guy painted it Chuck Berry Red and added pinstriping tape for binding. What a mess. It looked fine from 20 feet away. Until a few gigs later when the tape started peeling off. In retrospect, it should have been left with the gloppy maroon paint job and played with reckless abandon.

 

In 1984 I bought a '67 Fender Coronado that had been painted red with a splash of gold glitter. My intention was to strip it to natural and clearcoat it. But the stripper softened the binding and the red paint bled into it. So I had a stripped-to-blonde body with pink binding. I masked it off and painted a topcoat of white onto the binding and then clearcoated the whole thing. Looked fine.

 

In the winter of 1986-87 I was unemployed with zero money coming in. I heated the house with a kerosene heater because I had no oil for the furnace. I ended up with the Coronado body again, which someone had begun sanding. The neck was long gone, added to a Strat body (another story). I had a 1963 Jaguar neck, the Coronado body, which I painted black, one P90, one PAF humbucker (yes I know it would pay off my mortgage now), a floating 60s Japanese bridge and a tailpiece. I rigged up pots and a switch and made it work. It was a mongrel but it played. And looked kinda cool in a goth rockabilly way. I sold it for $150 and that money made that month's house payment with enough left over to buy a bag of groceries.

 

I don't miss the 'good old days'. I was scared a lot.

 

Thanks mate,

i liked the story :-)

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does any one try it ? or i should be the first one to buy and use on guitar :-)

 

You already did it remember?

 

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Have fun with your new sock account Rev6...I mean YahliP...I mean SG Player...I mean Gaston...I mean GibSG...I mean AlfaCorse...I mean Silver Buck...

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You already did it remember?

 

FS32yet.jpg

 

 

 

Have fun with your new sock account Rev6...I mean YahliP...I mean SG Player...I mean Gaston...I mean GibSG...I mean AlfaCorse...I mean Silver Buck...

 

 

i don't have LP , but i believe you are good man although your comment was ugly.

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