If your stringing or banding is a bit too wide to fit in the channel you routed - try this:

If you try to sand the edges of the banding or stringing, you run the risk of breaking it.
It's easy to make your stringing or banding narrower using this method: Rout a 1/16 wide, straight channel in a scrap piece of plywood, or board. Make the depth the same, or just ever so slightly less than the width of the banding you are trying to make narrower. See pictures below. In the pictured case, I am sanding the edge of a 1/8" wide ebony string. The channel is 1/16 wide and just under 1/8" deep.


Now, insert the string into the channel and sand the top of the string, or banding with a palm sander or simply a sanding block. This works great for me and I thought someone could use this tip.

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