Elevate Your Guitar Bending Skills The Importance of Side Thickness

In general, the thinner the wood the tighter the possible heat bend. Thinning the wood is what most folks do when they need to make a really tight bend. 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 ... This is the beginning step for this build. I've chosen the set of Brazilian Rosewood that everyone seemed to love so its time to bend the sides. Here you can ... 120 no matter what type of wood. I see others at .125 for both. and still others at .115. To me it's quite confusing and I'm sure it is for others as well. How Thin should Guitar Sides be? In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. Top thicknessing is critical to the finished sound of the instrument, and will vary depending on wood used, and how stiff that particular piece ... In this video I show how I make the side bending jig for building a classical guitar. I used 17.5mm plywood, overall template width is 154mm ... Michael Bashkin uses it a lot. I've used thicker pieces for fretboards and bridges but have not bent it. ... Joel Noble its great for fretboards. It tells us that, at least in the classic guitar, one can go as thin as 1/16” (about 1-1/2 mm) and still have the instrument hold together. That's useful to ... Here is a short video for how I do this. Note that the thickness of the sides really matters. My usual target is .085 inches. But I will go lower with harder ...