I love this wood. I know, I have published pictures of similar wood in the past but I just can’t get enough of it. This might well be the last set that I have with this wonderful colour and texture. I took this little video just to show what this guitar would look like with no binding and purfling. Who needs extra decoration? Well, actually there is a good reason for those elements. The binding protects the endgrain of the top and back from changes in humidity and at the same time fromm knocks and bumps which can also cause cracks. Furthermore, softwood takes bumps very badly no matter what the grain orientation. The purfling, by sticking to the top on the long grain, holds the binding much better than if the binging were only glued to the endgrain of the top. This is achieved by the staircase cut shown in the diagram. The purfling gives long grain for the binding to stick to. The endgrain is only a problem at the endblock position but as the binding ends there it is very important that it does not unstick.