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 Post subject: Cheap side bender?????
PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:54 am 
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Walnut
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First name: Tony
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I am going to try & build one acoustic guitar & don't want to put any real money into a side bender at this time. What would you guys recommend. I have a heat gun & have seen demos of it being used to heat a large metal pipe which was used to bend the wood. Is there anything else that might work for this possible one time bend? idunno


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:24 pm 
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Koa
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First name: Dave
Last Name: Livermore
State: Minnesota
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Tony,
The least expensive is probably going to be a pipe with a torch blowing into it.
Check out the Cumpiano book. Even the Sloan book. They both detail how to do this.

Dave



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