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Old 07-03-2013, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by stuw View Post
Not sure if your interested in making your own bending machine, but its pretty easy, and can be done cheap.
I might eventually be interested in making my own bending machine with the silicone blanket. Ebay doesn't seem to have any deals like you mentioned though. What did you search for? I looked for silicone heat blanket, and a few things came up, but nothing in the dimensions needed for bending sides.

I'm actually quite okay just going the old fashion route of creating a home made bending iron out of a metal pipe and a charcoal briquette lighter.



So I finished truing up the drum tonight and I've got a 10 yard roll of 80 grit sandpaper on the way. I hope to have a thicknessed top, back and sides by the end of the weekend. I've also been tinkering with rosette ideas. I'll be using some of my white oak and some walnut, for what I hope to be a contrasting, alternating tile looking rosette. I'll also be binding the guitar with some of the walnut.
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