Guitar Bending 101 The Impact of Side Thickness

I had just changed a new job recently so not much leave to take to make the guitar. ... I use the Aluminium pipe coupled with the heat gun to bend ... Torres made sides as thin as 1 mm on occasion - way too scary for me, but I've never gone thicker than 2 mm on classical sides, which is my standard. At 2 mm, ... The purfling is also attractively simple: just a thin line of green framing the back, top, sides and all inlays. ... While I will build him ... 10:48 · Go to channel · How Thin Should Guitar Sides Be? DIY Guitar Making•19K views · 22:00 · Go to channel · Saving Abandoned Tractor: Will It ... All of the veneers used were standar 0.5-0.6mm thick so with the two outer show layers and the two core layers of maple or mahogany they were coming out of the ... That sounds good to me for a flamenco guitar. Mine are about 2.5 mm in the center and 2.0 at the edges. Once it's glued to the sides, the edges ... It's critical that the end that attaches to the soundboard be perpendicular to the face that's going to be glued to the sides at the butt of the guitar. I use ... I bend sides on a hot pipe. For guitars I bought a 6" long piece of 3" diameter pipe and put a bolt and two nuts in one side. I mount the bolt ... Before bending them, Kinkead, in his book, "Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar", recommends taking them down to 5/64" or just a little over .08 inches thick. I was ... Most woods do bend well at the 275 375 range. The only woods that I found to scorch at low temps was lace wood.