Is the old Faux Binding out of fashion?

[JasonE]

All my PRS guitars have Faux Binding and I have a couple - inc the one in my Avatar with Double Faux Binding as they are Hollowbodies.

I have seen a fair few Fire Red Burst 'wraps' but I much prefer the Faux binding. To me, a PRS has to have both Faux Binding and Birds... LOL

My new Fire Red Burst has the scraped binding. I wouldn't want a wrap finish with this color. The natural scraped binding really looks nice with that dark red.

 

[Jo-]

I wish my fire red HBII had the scraped binding. Instead it’s got the mahogany body core painted black and stained binding. I wish they had left the mahogany natural instead of black.

But it’s got a rosewood neck and that’s all that matters. I didn’t get the choice of colour. This is my dream guitar.

 

[bglaze]

I was told at the time black-gold was really hard to get a clean-looking natural faux binding because the black would seep into the binding no matter what.

Here are some photos of my 35th Anniversary Core Cu24. It is Black Gold burst and happens to have a natural binding. I had not realized these were kind of rare when I bought it, but the natural binding was certainly a large factor that attracted me to this particular guitar! Not to mention that I am in love with Paul's switching in the 35th Anniversary 24s.

https://imgur.com/C5cZ01K

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https://imgur.com/OxrfJtf

https://imgur.com/fCTU5AR