The Key to Effortless Guitar Bends Optimal Side Thickness Revealed

Making an Acoustic Guitar - Making the Sides...Bending by hand and Kerfed Lining. Its guitar making...its live...Bring your best Q's! Carol will ... How Thin should Guitar Sides be? In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. 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 ... I have tried both hand and machine bending. I spritz the sides thoroughly beforehand. I thin sides to 2.2 mm thickness. Has anyone, with Black ... In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. I also talk about the thickness ... A guitar side bender. Both the inner and outer layer of one side are bent at the same time in the bender. Maple guitar sides taped to a solid ... I have taken mine all down to between .080 and .085" on all the woods I've bent, some by hand and some in my bender machine. This has worked out fine. 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 ... 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 ... Laminating the sides of your guitar will produce stiffer sides than a solid piece of wood that is steam bent. Also, steam or heat bending is ...