Achieving Perfect Bends The Science of Guitar Side Thickness

I thin sides to at least 0.085" (well, 2.0 to 2.2mm, really), thinner for tighter bends (down to .070 or so). Thicker also means quite a bit of ... Luthier and instructor Robert O'Brien shows how to bend guitar sides by hand on a bending iron. ... How Thin Should Guitar Sides Be? DIY Guitar ... How Thin should Guitar Sides be? In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. Traditionally, the sides, or "ribs" of classical guitars are bent from a solid piece of wood that is somewhere around 2 to 2.2 mm thick. Luthiers rejoice, there's an inexpensive press that will do the job quite nicely. Luthier and woodworker Behrad Gorgani collaborated with Ted ... If you go slow and take your time everything will work out. Many people ask: How do you bend wood? Even without the steam box the answer is that ... Unfortunately, a little extra thickness will add significantly to the bending problems, because the stiffness of a material is proportional to the cube of the ... How to make a bending iron to bend acoustic guitar sides. Of course, it can be used to bend any kind of wood. Woodworking. In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. I also talk about the thickness ... A guitar side bender. Both the inner and outer layer of one side are bent at the same time in the bender. Maple guitar sides taped to a solid ...