I'm building a mini banjo with this peg head shape and would like to add binding. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve this.... routing the edges, bending the binding, etc?
My first suggestion would be; don't do it!
It looks like a candidate for a poured binding to me. I don't know if anyone has gone over that here, but the overlay can be cut to shape, glued onto the still-paddle-shaped peghead, a dam of masking tape applied around the edge of the paddle, and colored casting resin poured into the dam and left to cure.
(It is how Stelling peghead binding was done.)
I have 2 peghead venners I purchased several years ago from Wyatt Farley that was poured.
I just recently tried a couple with that method myself, to much success . So with that shape above, I would trying the epoxie pour.
You can get what ever color you want. Only thing , you can't get "grained ivoriod".
Tom
I could not attempt the casting way since I had already peghead shape with the overlay glued. I was concerned about routing the tight curves of the peghead shape since there wasn't enough space to use a pilot router but. I did the routing with a regular bit by sight. I bought a heat gun off Amazon and bent the binding with the temp set at 130 degrees. Iade a jig to bend the tight curves of the flame. The pieces were glued iamd held in place with tape. Once cured, the tape was removed and the binding was leveled with the peghead surface. It came out better than I had anticipated. I still have some clean up work to do.
Looks good Marvin
Very good indeed. Looks awesome.
Good job!
Quite a feat! Nice work.
Gorgeous and amazing.
