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It binds the neck together, guitars without binding tend to fall apart easier..

nah, just kidding.. doesnt do much besides looking better in most cases

yeah, it's just cosmetic..

Okay, so permission to tell the next person that says "guitars without binding suck" to hang themselves?

Looks. Looks nice on some guitars, fails at others.

hahaha, but guitars without inlays can be the devil sometimes.

not always, sometimes it looks nice.. I usually prefer inlays tho

To me the binding makes a guitar "pop". The color transition adds to the shape of the guitar (certain ones). Neck binding just looks classy to me.

If a guitar is 'Stealthed out', having no binding/inlays adds to the look. All flat black, ebony fretboard, the only thing that isn't black is the logo.

It is all up to the person choosing the guitar, whether they think it adds to or takes away from the look. To say that 'no inlays = Ghey'(not to single out Gfunk's post but..) is just as ridiculous as saying EMG's = Ghey. I can't stand EMG's but I still wouldn't say to someone that they shouldn't have them in their guitar.

As for the less wood thing....I don't really think that the amount of wood taken from the fretboard to add inlays/binding is really going to have all that much of difference on the tone.

Guitar = Ghey

why is a thread about the purpose of binding already 2 pages long ?

the orignal point of binding was cover the end of the wood to stop anything getting into the grain.
with modern finishes it's just cosmetic, but on the neck it does make it feel different.

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