Achieve Effortless Guitar Bends Optimizing Side Thickness

You can see a couple of nasty cracks along the shoulder. They begun at the preamp cutout and because of the tension on that area of bent wood, they easily ... I could have laminated the bend from multiple thin plies, but that ... Guitar sides are bent around a hot iron. (photo used with ... cap10kirk said: I did when I used thin picks (.73 mm Tortex), then I started using thicker picks that didn't require a death grip to hold onto ... In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. I also talk about the thickness ... Most of my gigging guitars have .010s as they give the right sound and sustain for the music my current band plays, and a couple of songs have 4 ... I think you should be able to go quite a bit thinner than that. On my big Guitars I go as thin as 1.6 mm. Knock at least 0.5 mm off. You ... I have tried both hand and machine bending. I spritz the sides thoroughly beforehand. I thin sides to 2.2 mm thickness. Has anyone, with Black ... I use a copper pipe with a propane torch inside to bend anything up to 1/8". It's a different technique but not too hard to learn. Julie ... How Thin Should Guitar Sides Be? DIY Guitar Making•19K views · 12:27 ... Bending Acoustic Guitar Sides | Using my Homemade Side Bender. I've bent Sides on a Pipe before, but this is the first try at this method. These are for a Baritone Ukulele and are 75mm wide X 1.8mm thick, ...