Optimal Guitar Side Thickness for Effortless Bending

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All of the wood for this guitar will be cut from the same billet, except the soundboard and bridge. ... The thin sides are bent over a home-made bending iron, a ... As with the back, the top should be thinned to about 70-80thou/ 2mm thick. Choose a good side, clean it up, and mark it. Trace the ukulele shape ... I use a copper pipe with a propane torch inside to bend anything up to 1/8". It's a different technique but not too hard to learn. Julie ... Most woods do bend well at the 275 375 range. The only woods that I found to scorch at low temps was lace wood. .080" is about right for a finished guitar. I'd try and get them to .075" to .080". It would be easier ... 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 ... Most of my gigging guitars have .010s as they give the right sound and sustain for the music my current band plays, and a couple of songs have 4 ... When you make an acoustic, or hollowbody, the sides are really thin - maybe 2mm-3mm. I guess because you're bending veneers, the strength of the 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 ... I think thicknessing down to 2 mm as a nominal target thickness has been established primarilly to enable the ribs to be adequately bent, thick ...
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