Wood Binding On Forearm Contour

[MrMuckle]

Is this possible?

[Geo]

Difficulties I see:

1) routing the channel--would need some kind of floating jig like they have for routing binding channels on archtop guitars

2) will the wood binding "bend down" to follow the contour of the forearm carve?

[WezV]

its possible, but not easy.

the channel can be completed around the contour by hand with a traditional purfling cutter

then its just the not so simple task of bending the wood to fit... thats the real tricky bit

[Drak]

I've seen it done successfully, but it looked strange and out of place, I didn't like it myself.

Might want to google some pics to see one first before committing.

[MrMuckle]

Sorry, I should have clarified that. Yes, I'm talking about wood and it's ability to bend down in that direction. I've seen plastic binding around a forearm contour and I don't mind the look. I wonder if Super Soft II would help.

[Woodenspoke]

Its easier to do this before the body is tapered if you dont have a binding jig.

The reason I say this is the body is very thin at this point, depth wise and limits your edge contact with some tools. Also the rear cutout is there as well. That way you start with a level surface for the router. The router will remove the bulk of the material the transition will need to be done by hand.

Not that I have given this much thought. I guess you could also add a pattern to the top and do it afterwards. Again its the change in depth that makes it hard without a binding jig as this follows the contours ad jives an even chanel depth.