ACG Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Hi everyone.. hope you are all well and enjoy the summer and the projects that it brings... I am excited about building some new guitars and really need to fin a source for cool plastic abalone binding. Could some people please point me in the right direction on the web?:: I need a few sources for the stuff and other trimmings to soup up a "pretty" guitar Stay well everyone and God bless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryovanni Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 I don't think I have ever seen plastic binding that looks like Abalone. Are you asking about laminated shell like Ab-lam? Peace,Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Remember duff beer man's thread about fixing up that fancy JEM awhile back and it turned out that the abalone purfling was actually just vinyl decale? He might be able to find something like that? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 allparts do it UK Link USA Link They also have tortoise, red tortoise and white pearloid if you fancy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Does anyone have pics of this stuff??? Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I have seen the pearloid and it looked just like a pearloid scratchplate does, went well on a black guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwhiteandthemaple Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 adding one: Here's a link for Canada, or Ontario http://www.amwoodinc.com/canada/instrumentFrame.html Go to Instrument Parts Then click "Guitar Family & Tonewood Components" Then scroll down and click "Binding" under Electric Guitar Then scroll down.. and you'll see. http://www.amwoodinc.com/templates/canada/...p;t=a&i=mus I could've just gave you this though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryovanni Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Well I learned something new! I had no idea they made such a thing. I did a little web search to see what it looks like installed. Most of the pics I found were not close enough to see the material. This is the best I could find (Uke)-Faux binding Uke It doesn't look like it has any flash like shell and colors look a little flat. At about 15.5 cents per. inch it is less than half the price of real shell (35 cents per inch-MOP Supplies). Peace,Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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