How does this happen?

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From here: https://reverb.com/item/25324097-guild-sf-4-starfire-4-1991-tobacco-sunburst

Not interested in the guitar (which is mislabeled as a '91) but I've seen this wear pattern before. Bad rebinding job?

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According to my luthier, the finish isn't elastic enough to keep up with expansion and contraction of the wood and shrinkage of the binding material.
 

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What year is it?

Is that a wide nut?

How about the pickups? HB1s or Fender pickups?
 

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I'd say it's ~97ish. Those are SD1 pickups. My '98 has a 1 11/16" wide neck at the nut. My '97 SFIII is a touch narrower but still in that area.
 

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According to my luthier, the finish isn't elastic enough to keep up with expansion and contraction of the wood and shrinkage of the binding material.

Makes sense to me, plasticizers being one of the ingredients and a variable in NCL formulations.
Have suspected for a while that the older harder finishes were more prone to massive checking on flat-tops in particular because of lower plasticizer content.
 
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