Binding repair with excellent outcome- H-575 Custom

[MartyGrass]

My H-575 had binding separation on the back.  It wasn't subtle.  I took it to one of the Heritage guys who has a shop in his house.  He is a friend.  I don't think he usually does commercial repairs.  Anyway about a month later it's done.  He had to head the binding and reapply it, which took several steps and a lot of patience.  Once it was on well he had to touch up the lacquer.  It is very hard to tell anything happened there anymore, although there are subtle indicators that I wouldn't have noticed much if he hadn't shown me.

I've had binding work done before elsewhere but never better.

Here are gratuitous pics.

[MartyGrass]

After the repair.

 

 

[Spectrum13]

I like looking at your pretty guitars.   The implied lesson here is don't buy some gorilla glue and do it yourself. But finding an excellent repair guy in Kalamazoo is considerably easier than many other cities. You are one lucky guy!   

[Blacker80]

That is a beautiful 575 - turned out well, too. I had a blonde H-575 about 10yrs ago that was gorgeous. I currently have a guitar that could potentially need binding work, but not entirely sure that is the remedy in my case yet.

[zguitar71]

Yes that is an excellent outcome! They didn’t good job on a beautiful whip.