My son bought me a LP guitar kit last Christmas, but I have been sick to much to do anything. My question is would stain hurt the binding on the edge of the body or should I tape it.
Thank You for your answers
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you will have to scrape the binding . ive built a few . fun to do . if you get a nice quilted maple top yu can enhance the grain by staining with black or amber(what i use) then dye a color or skip the dye and finish it up with tru oil will give it almost a water ripple effect .
Depends on the binding material, and on the stain. Should scrape right off with no problem, I did it once a long time ago with a aria pro 335 type thing and rosewood wood stain and it rubbed right off (the binding)with some fine sandpaper
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you will have to scrape the binding . ive built a few . fun to do . if you get a nice quilted maple top yu can enhance the grain by staining with black or amber(what i use) then dye a color or skip the dye and finish it up with tru oil will give it almost a water ripple effect .
Here's how it's done: stain is applied, then scraped off before lacquer is sprayed on.
Gibson has a video showing the technique.
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/video/Making%20Of%20The%20Gib...