Guitar Bending 101 The Ultimate Guide to Side Thickness

I start at the waist, then do the upper bout, then the lower. It takes constant small adjustments but with patience it can be made to follow the ... You should look into a "hot pipe" setup. That is what luthiers do for bending the ribs (sides) of guitars, mandolins, or violins. Basically ... 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, ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 only caveats I found were that it loosened too quickly, so you have to be careful not to over bend and tear the wood, and it can be hard to check your ... . The manufacturer claims "We have heard of good results from luthiers who use the softener to make some species of thin lumber more bendable.". So how could one install the tentallones faster, be sure they were glued properly to the guitar sides, and be able to bend them into shape without heat or other ... So 1/4" or so thick is fine in a Cbg. Acoustic guitar sides have to be bent so start out thinner, I stiffen mine up after. Your top and back ...