Bending your timber...

[dudders]

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One of the topics is called 'Bending guitar sides' - Roger's in his workshop and shows how the piece of walnut you produced on your mill gets worked on to produce the sides of a guitar.  Fascinating, I thought, although I did skip a bit...  Have a look.

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, dudders said:

This is a link to Fylde Guitars latest newsletter:

 

Welcome to Fylde Guitars Newsletter

WWW.FYLDEGUITARS.COM

 

One of the topics is called 'Bending guitar sides' - Roger's in his workshop and shows how the piece of walnut you produced on your mill gets worked on to produce the sides of a guitar.  Fascinating, I thought, although I did skip a bit...  Have a look.

 

Yeah, if you want to try bending a piece of wood the easiest way is the ' boil in the bag ' method... give it a search, all you need is a plastic tube / bag made from Visqueen or similar, a wallpaper steamer and a pre-arranged former to bend around and clamp.

I believe the general rule is steam for an hour + 1 hour per inch... but I stand to be corrected.

 

I subscribe to several Luthiers channels and find their intricate work, assembly and repair solutions to be fascinating from a players point of view, so cheers for that👍

[Woodworks]

Cant see any demos on the page.     Edit hadn't scrolled down far enough 

 

Saw a luthier at a woodworking show and if I remember right he bent the wooden sides around a hot 'mandrel' ? Dont know the proper term but it was a shaped cylinder that was heated and he worked the wood against it to gently form into the desired curve.  Guess steam may detract from the colour of the woods used? 

 

Only ever steam bent and laminated wood myself to form curves.

Edited April 3, 2022 by Woodworks

[Macpherson]

4 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Cant see any demos on the page.     Edit hadn't scrolled down far enough 

 

Saw a luthier at a woodworking show and if I remember right he bent the wooden sides around a hot 'mandrel' ? Dont know the proper term but it was a shaped cylinder that was heated and he worked the wood against it to gently form into the desired curve.  Guess steam may detract from the colour of the woods used? 

 

Only ever steam bent and laminated wood myself to form curves.

 

Yeah, sorry to mislead that's how they do it for instruments...

 

I suppose I meant just general bending of any timber which I've done, and derailed the thread... apologies to the op.

[Woodworks]

33 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

 

Yeah, sorry to mislead that's how they do it for instruments...

 

I suppose I meant just general bending of any timber which I've done, and derailed the thread... apologies to the op.

Its Arbtalk so derails go with the territory haha.

 

Not entirely off subject with this. Never made instruments but made quite a few guitar stands and a rather odd art-deco style cello stand which wasn't my taste but the customer was happy. 

 

The guitar stand below is all laminated rosewood and maple. The neck support curve was too tight to do with just lamination so steam bent the laminates first before laminating them. 

[dudders]

Beautiful job - you can be proud of that.

[Macpherson]

3 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Its Arbtalk so derails go with the territory haha.

 

Not entirely off subject with this. Never made instruments but made quite a few guitar stands and a rather odd art-deco style cello stand which wasn't my taste but the customer was happy. 

 

The guitar stand below is all laminated rosewood and maple. The neck support curve was too tight to do with just lamination so steam bent the laminates first before laminating them. 

 

Very classy piece of work, thanks for sharing👍

[Squaredy]

6 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Its Arbtalk so derails go with the territory haha.

 

Not entirely off subject with this. Never made instruments but made quite a few guitar stands and a rather odd art-deco style cello stand which wasn't my taste but the customer was happy. 

 

The guitar stand below is all laminated rosewood and maple. The neck support curve was too tight to do with just lamination so steam bent the laminates first before laminating them. 

Very impressive indeed. 

 

Surely your next job should be a large slab with a hairpin leg screwed to each corner?  Just to keep ArbTalk traditions alive...

Edited April 3, 2022 by Squaredy

[Stubby]

7 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Its Arbtalk so derails go with the territory haha.

 

Not entirely off subject with this. Never made instruments but made quite a few guitar stands and a rather odd art-deco style cello stand which wasn't my taste but the customer was happy. 

 

The guitar stand below is all laminated rosewood and maple. The neck support curve was too tight to do with just lamination so steam bent the laminates first before laminating them. 

That is a bit , very , special ( even if you don't like it particularly ) Proper job !

[Woodworks]

8 minutes ago, Stubby said:

That is a bit , very , special ( even if you don't like it particularly ) Proper job !

Thanks chaps.

 

As I have derailed this thread in for a penny in for a pound. It was this cello stand I was not keen on but it pleased the customer. Made quite a few of the guitar stands as it was a way of making something of value from small but precious offcuts. Both made of Rosewood and maple as it was for the same customer.