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Sex Panther Tele

Cutting The Rabbet For Binding

I am going to put some black binding on the Tele guitar body. I think it will look super cool with the pink body and other black hardware.

To install binding, you need to cut away part of the body in an accurate and clean way. I think big builders use a router and choose a cutter and bearing that cuts the right depth.

I don’t like that, so I will do it by hand. I bought a really cool special tool named a gramil that will help me do this. The gramil comes with a blade and is adjustable to cut pretty much any size rabbet.

You set the distance the cutter is from the fence based on the size of the binding and then cut all the way around.
It makes a nice clean line.
A combination of deeper cuts with the gramil and some sharp chisels removes the wood where the binding will be.
Yay!
The end grain was a pain

I am very happy with the results. This tool was very fun to use!

The next step is to install the binding 😱