Bend with Confidence How Thin Should Your Guitar Sides Be?

I spent an afternoon playing with my 'bending iron'. I tried some thin spruce, and it didn't really want to play, but the offcuts of rosewood bent beautifully. 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 ... 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 ... The width of side pieces always starts at the height of the tail block and that dimension will change, depending on the guitar you are planning to build. And so ... My sides and binding are always around 0.080". For the cutaway of my next gypsy guitar I go on the cutaway to .060". Yeahh. FWIW. Herman. Top thicknessing is critical to the finished sound of the instrument, and will vary depending on wood used, and how stiff that particular piece ... Most woods do bend well at the 275 375 range. The only woods that I found to scorch at low temps was lace wood. But the flatter radius is not what makes the guitar easier to bend on. The flatter radius is meant to stop “fret out”. This is where a string ... The sides of a guitar are made of very thin wood, usually around 2 mm thick. When the top and back are glued to them, there must be a way to ... In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. I also talk about the thickness ...