Re: Filling in the gaps
I'll tell you what I did that worked really well, but I don't know if you'll be able to. Is that maple? It doesn't look like it. But in any case--in my case--I was working with a red cedar top. Red cedar tends to shred. So my channels all looked like that where they ran even a few degrees against the grain.
But like I said, red cedar tends to shred. So I ended up with a bunch of fibers. Those fibers, stuck down in the tear-out gaps, with a clear glue, did the trick. I think the glue I used was CA, but it could have been something else. In any case, the advantage of the fibers was that they were easy to manipulate, and they added an element of running parallel to the binding: the eye does not easily distinguish parallel lines, I guess. To me that was better than the risk of some sort of matrix or filler which just emphasizes the tear out and the space.
I can't say it was perfect, but nobody's ever said, "Hey, what did you do there?" Of course that might be because the rest of it was so ugly...
belbein
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