My 30 year old D35 developed a similar detachment of the binding. I dared not try to repair it myself, brought to a Certified Martin Repair Tech who fixed it perfectly. I LOVE that Martin with maple tonewood - that's as rare as hen's teeth!!
I've done this myself with white glue. The dried glue on the loose binding and this provides a great gluing surface for the glue, and white glue cleans up easily with water even after it dries.
Plastic repair tip. Plastic need to be “set” after heating and molding in order to keep it from shrinking back into its pre-heated shape. “Setting” the plastic involves rapidly cooling the plastic while its held in its desired shape. Get yourself a can of compressed air, like what you would use to blow out your keyboard. Heat the binding and mold it back into the bed. Once it’s in place and being held there, spray the compressed air over the heated area. Prob be useful to have two sets hands to do it right. The cooling process needs to be done as quickly as possible. I’ve wondered if a can of the freeze spray would work even better but I’m not sure how it would effect the wood or the finish having that Freon applied directly to it. I’ll let someone else experiment with that. FWIW I have a Martin GPCPA4 that the binding is coming loose on.
@@KMguitarworks 😂, I agree with that 👆. It’s difficult to find an actual honest guitar tech that has the experience, training, knows what the hell they are doing with due confidence. It’s a crap shoot out there good luck my friend. I’ve found that it’s best to learn everything you can about your guitar yourself that you can do and have the patience, tools and confidence to do as much as you can to your own instrument if at all possible.
I had the binding of my Martin 00 come loose on a less than 4 y/o guitar. I reached out to Martin and they promised me to repair it under warranty. Apparently there are issues with the new gle they're using. I have to sort things out with the dealer and they wil ship my guitar to a Martin-certified workshop, but if it's free and works I don't mind the hassle.
Sigh …😔… I’m having the same issue on my Martin 00016 nylon crossover and I love the damn guitar but it’s doing the same thing and I keep it in a humidified case always when it’s not being played and I just noticed this same issue right at the same spot around the “ waist” curve of the guitar on top and bottom and it’s starting to do it on all 4 spots . It’s that red foe tortoise binding that is doing the exact same thing it’s as it’s not long enough to place all of it back in the Chanel . My local guitar tech doesn’t want to touch it says to take it to a “ certified Martin repair dealer “ the problem is I never bothered with the warranty card certification and lost most of the stuff needed to try and go back and do it now . Probably would be too late now anyway. It makes me upset to pay the kinda of money I paid for a stupid problem such as this which obviously Martin is well aware of therefore I think they should in good faith to the customer forgo any cost to repair/ replace anyone who owns the guitar with this issue and/or anyone in the future that incurs the same issue before the problem was resolved at the Martin Factory so that this issue doesn’t CONTINUE to be an issue for the amount of money a customer spends on what is supposed to be the “ standard “ of the highest quality guitar since “ 1833” does anyone else here agree with me.
Martin is the best when it comes to warranty. Get your guitar registered. Check their website and get the information needed. When I worked at a shop that was Martin Warranty, they didn't care when your guitar was registered. It just needed to be registered before you made a claim.
@@MillCityLutherie Thanks my friend for the advice I will follow up with that . Although to be honest with you I was about to just take a hair dryer and clean the channel then just try and tackle it myself as I want to get it back making music. It’s not so bad that I couldn’t be playing it as is but I haven’t been as not to accidentally have the binding get broken thus complicating the whole situation but anyways thanks for your advice and input. Have a good day.
You are using CA glue for this repair -- because you'll get a good bond and because the wood is already finished. Couldn't you also use StewMac's Bind-ALL -- especially since you are masking the finished wood? Bind-All sets up in 2 minutes. And you would tape the binding in place for 12 hours while it cures.
Seems mostly Martin guitars have this issue. Maybe they should find out how other manufacturers do it and take lessons. Should not happen on a supposedly high quality guitar for any reason. Good for luthiery business though...
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My 30 year old D35 developed a similar detachment of the binding. I dared not try to repair it myself, brought to a Certified Martin Repair Tech who fixed it perfectly. I LOVE that Martin with maple tonewood - that's as rare as hen's teeth!!
@@leonglassglow3854 spruce top. Rosewood back and sides. Mahogany neck
Thanks very much. I did a good job on my old Martin from watching this Video.
I've done this myself with white glue. The dried glue on the loose binding and this provides a great gluing surface for the glue, and white glue cleans up easily with water even after it dries.
What's wrong with wood glue?
Plastic repair tip.
Plastic need to be “set” after heating and molding in order to keep it from shrinking back into its pre-heated shape. “Setting” the plastic involves rapidly cooling the plastic while its held in its desired shape.
Get yourself a can of compressed air, like what you would use to blow out your keyboard. Heat the binding and mold it back into the bed. Once it’s in place and being held there, spray the compressed air over the heated area. Prob be useful to have two sets hands to do it right. The cooling process needs to be done as quickly as possible. I’ve wondered if a can of the freeze spray would work even better but I’m not sure how it would effect the wood or the finish having that Freon applied directly to it. I’ll let someone else experiment with that.
FWIW I have a Martin GPCPA4 that the binding is coming loose on.
I have the same guitar and same problem. I fixed it better than the guitar tech at guitar center lol.
@@KMguitarworks 😂, I agree with that 👆. It’s difficult to find an actual honest guitar tech that has the experience, training, knows what the hell they are doing with due confidence. It’s a crap shoot out there good luck my friend. I’ve found that it’s best to learn everything you can about your guitar yourself that you can do and have the patience, tools and confidence to do as much as you can to your own instrument if at all possible.
Nice work, but wouldn’t it be best to sand it prior to glueing? Thanks! 👍🏻
I had the binding of my Martin 00 come loose on a less than 4 y/o guitar. I reached out to Martin and they promised me to repair it under warranty. Apparently there are issues with the new gle they're using. I have to sort things out with the dealer and they wil ship my guitar to a Martin-certified workshop, but if it's free and works I don't mind the hassle.
Not a glue problem, it seems. The binding is shrinking.
Very nice. My D18 has just done this.
I have a Martín Eric Clapton with the same problem, its just in the corner what glue do you recomend ?
Thanks for the video!
HI,My Martin 000-18 binding was shrink a little bit about 3cm-5cm.Which glue do you recommend me to use? Thank you.
Sigh …😔… I’m having the same issue on my Martin 00016 nylon crossover and I love the damn guitar but it’s doing the same thing and I keep it in a humidified case always when it’s not being played and I just noticed this same issue right at the same spot around the “ waist” curve of the guitar on top and bottom and it’s starting to do it on all 4 spots . It’s that red foe tortoise binding that is doing the exact same thing it’s as it’s not long enough to place all of it back in the Chanel . My local guitar tech doesn’t want to touch it says to take it to a “ certified Martin repair dealer “ the problem is I never bothered with the warranty card certification and lost most of the stuff needed to try and go back and do it now . Probably would be too late now anyway. It makes me upset to pay the kinda of money I paid for a stupid problem such as this which obviously Martin is well aware of therefore I think they should in good faith to the customer forgo any cost to repair/ replace anyone who owns the guitar with this issue and/or anyone in the future that incurs the same issue before the problem was resolved at the Martin Factory so that this issue doesn’t CONTINUE to be an issue for the amount of money a customer spends on what is supposed to be the “ standard “ of the highest quality guitar since “ 1833” does anyone else here agree with me.
Martin is the best when it comes to warranty. Get your guitar registered. Check their website and get the information needed. When I worked at a shop that was Martin Warranty, they didn't care when your guitar was registered. It just needed to be registered before you made a claim.
@@MillCityLutherie Thanks my friend for the advice I will follow up with that . Although to be honest with you I was about to just take a hair dryer and clean the channel then just try and tackle it myself as I want to get it back making music. It’s not so bad that I couldn’t be playing it as is but I haven’t been as not to accidentally have the binding get broken thus complicating the whole situation but anyways thanks for your advice and input. Have a good day.
what particular brand of glue you've used?
I have this exact thing on my D18......but I wont be trying this at home 😉😉
You are using CA glue for this repair -- because you'll get a good bond and because the wood is already finished. Couldn't you also use StewMac's Bind-ALL -- especially since you are masking the finished wood? Bind-All sets up in 2 minutes. And you would tape the binding in place for 12 hours while it cures.
DO NOT use Bind-all on a lacquer finish. You are guaranteed to be doing some finish work if any gets on the body.
Seems mostly Martin guitars have this issue. Maybe they should find out how other manufacturers do it and take lessons.
Should not happen on a supposedly high quality guitar for any reason. Good for luthiery business though...
This is a very common issue.😢
I'm disappointed about to poor quality of martin guitars. 🤮
Absolutely disgraceful that this happens on these supposedly high quality instruments.
Replace Martin pick guard