SonVolt Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Hello and nice to meet you all, I recently bought a Harley Benton brand Chinese LP copy guitar. Although not an expensive guitar ($400 CDN), I like it and it plays and sounds great. However, as seen in the pix, the binding towards the nut has stain on it, making it look very uneven. I hate looking down at this whenever I play. Is there any way to sand/scrape the binding to make it more even? Or any other method to fix this? Thanks very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 Binding is typically scraped with a razor blade to clean it up. You are going to want to do a small test scrape somewhere not noticeable to see if the color of the binding holds true. If it is good then you will likely need to polish what you scraped to match the sheen of the rest of the binding. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronkirn Posted March 19, 2017 Report Share Posted March 19, 2017 what you're seeing is where the UV light has caused the lacquer to become yellow/amber.. as common as cockroaches in a Southern Camp Ground... I would suggest considering leaving it as it is... unless you are somewhat skilled at scraping binding, you can make things much worse,, Ron Kirn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar2005 Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 As Scott said, carefully scrape that off. I would try to apply some kind of clear over it when done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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