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I am looking for the rope purfling used on this Kamaka HB-2D uke. I wrote to them and they said they get it from Gurian, but it is not on Gurian's website right now - in addition, they have a $50 minimum order. LMI offers a couple of them, but the big one is too big and the small is too small. This one scales to just over 1/8" wide.

Any ideas?

Ed

Might have been a custom made pufling, or discontinued.

Alex

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LMI's is only five thou under 1/8". Could that just be the margin of error in your scaling?

http://www.lmii.com/products/kit-wizard ... pe/flypage

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Not to long ago I was working on an LMI kit someone had ordered years ago but never used. It had that same purf. The kit only had four pieces and one was marginal so I looked around for a replacement. Close but no cigar. It was made by Gurian for LMI but I couldn't find a match for the old stuff either.

Why not make some rope yourself? I made some custom herringbone a few months ago. It was a fun side project.

I have "made" tiny rope purfling for ukes by splitting herringbone down the middle and gluing on a strip of purfling to the edge.

There was an article either in AL or GM a few issues ago about making rope binding.

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David

That would be perfect - is that the stuff that LMI offers now, or a different size they no longer offer? At any rate, do you have a width on it? Thanks much.

SteveG

Could easily be my scaling - I use the proportional formula that Mr. Ogbert, my Jesuit high school geometry teacher taught me, and he made it stick in my brain. However, garbage in, garbage out. Thanks.

Ed

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Mike

Thanks - I looked at those and they have uneven spacing of the 2 colors so they don't have the rope effect. I went back to LMI and called them about their rope purfling. The one with the darker colored dark pieces (B120T) was listed at .250 X .120 but I might could make it work. I called to ask how easily it bent as a purfling - it is listed as a binding when it does not look like one. The salesman asked what problem I was anticipating and I said it was 1/4 wide. He said "no way - let me measure it". He came back and said it is .120 wide and .250 tall and it was mismarked in the catalog. I said it is quite a bit more expensive than the other 2 at .120, and the catalog picture shows it bigger - are you sure we are talking about the same thing? He was. I asked why it would be .250 tall, other than allowing you to cut one rabet for both purfling and binding and he didn't know.

So If I add a b/w at the inner surface against my tortoise binding I think I can get the width I like

Thanks all

Ed

I won't say its easy to make, or cheap either. But you will have an experience doing it. Maybe you can even sell some. Just order some maple veneers from LMI, brown and natural. Haans, myself, and others have discussed this here.

Gurian will make whatever you want, but you have to take the whole "sheet" He is a maker & supplier, but not a "store" where you can order a few pieces.

Perhaps the LMI stuff that was .25" tall is to be used as rope binding, where the outer layer would be sanded away to make the rope show from the side and top.

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Good thought on sanding away the outer layer to expose rope binding. That would explain why there is a white strip on one side and a black strip on the other.

Ed