Side Bending Machine Basics Part 3
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- In this series, I talk about bending guitar sides with a side bending machine as opposed to bending by hand around a hot pipe. I talk about the pros, the cons, and the practical tips on bending wood. And I demonstrate my side bending procedure with the side bending machine.
In this third and final part I demonstrate the way that I use my fox-style bending machine to get perfectly bent sides without any scorching.
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Great 3 part series. Thanks for making me comfortable with going forward building and using a bending machine.
Nice work. Thank you
Thank you for sharing these three videos about side bending.
Thanks for informative videos. Have you found differences in placing the heating blanket on top of the sandwich instead of below the metal sheet? I think John Hall does as I describe.
Looking forward to your videos
Excellent video
Getting ready to build one myself
I have had my timber a while
Looking forward to watching your videos
Thank you for a fantastic tutorial, I really enjoy your input and experience it really helps when you new to building.
Hi Mr.Schaefer.Did you make your side bender?
Could you demonstrate a Venetian cutaway bend? Thanks 🙏
Great series. Very informative. I don't know if anyone is checking on these posts but I was wondering if Koa is a wood that should be soaked or just spritzed? I've built guitars had have had the wood bent at LMI's Shop Services but I've been asked to build a baritone ukulele so I have to bend my own. I'm using Koa and was just curious.
Coming from a general woodworking background, I'm used to the idea of steam bending, where the workpiece is put in a steam box for some amount of time and then bent around a form and clamped in place. This doesn't seem to be how it's done in luthierie, and I'm wondering why that is. Springback, maybe?
So I’m wondering why that bottom spring slat is even needed at all? It doesn’t seem to really do anything. Or perhaps some other more pliable material could be used if scorching is a concern
The bottom slat is necessary to hold the heat in while it is flat and heating up, before it gets bent. You're right that once the bend gets under way, it's not really doing anything. I suppose you could try to remove it once it's at temperature and then bend, but that seems like a lot of trouble.
The best solution, and I think I talk about this in the second video, is to simply use a thinner (more plaible) metal slat on the bottom. The only reason I use the thick slats that I use is because it's what I've always had. So for me, rather than getting new spring steel slats, I just added some springs to my jig. Either way works. You just definitely want to consider the effects of the bottom slat when you set all this up.
thank you
By the way, for those not in the US, when he says temperatures he means in degrees Fahrenheit. Do not attempt to heat your sides to 250 degrees Celsius!
Good point to make! Thank you.
I have a number of questions regarding side bending. What is the ideal thickness for bending Brazilian Mahogany sides, I guess it's somewhere between 2- 2. 5 m m am I right. I've tried four times now with out success, breaking the sides every time, also the wood is water staining which is not easy to remove. I am following your instructions having built my own side bending jig, bought a heat blanket, & foil etc . What am I doing wrong ? Alec. Sutton U K
I've never used Brazilian Mahogany. But check this video out. This is what I do when I have a difficult set:
ruclips.net/video/gjxI1Bk0UUE/видео.html
Hi
Could you please tell how palisander behaves? Soaking or not and if for how long. And with temperature for palisander in fahrenheit?
Thanxs for an answer.
Never used it
@@EricSchaeferGuitars sorry, used the german term.
Palisander would be rosewood...
That you for sure used already?
Thanx
How do you make elctric ?
How thick are those sides?
Great video! Love to see you bend one by hand.
Thanks Jeffrey! I bend sides by hand in the "Building an OM Acoustic" course videos. But those videos aren't free, unfortunately.
You cut a slot for me in an ebony bridge that I put on my Martin Dred Jr. It replaced a richlite bridge. I just took the richlite fretboard of a Jr. and replace it with rosewood. Better sound!!!
yea, I remember that. Good to hear! It makes a difference!