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Thinking of making my next OM build a Florentine cutaway and dont see any good posts or instructions for doing so. Someone recommended I susscibe to Sylvan Wells site which I did and his one article really suggests sawing the cutaway with band saw after boy is built - seems like an ok way to convert a guitar but not for making from scratch and using same wood, etc. Any advice on where I can go for directions?

Very helpful Todd, thanks so much for posting your pics. Still open to other approaches but this is a huge help so thanks for taking the time.

Todd,

Thanks for the photos - which of course brings more questions and requests.

1) Can you provide a photo of what you've built to bend your cutaways with your Fox bender please? I've made something - but am always looking for some better ideas/methods. I saw a photo of Kevin Ryan's small cutaway bending jig - which is pretty unassuming and brilliant - and now would love to see yours.

2) Do you bind the tip of your cutaway. I'm remembering a thread where someone showed how they made a perfect mitered joint at the tip of the cutaway - but yours looks like it will make a butt joint - and am wondering what you do.

Thanks

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P A U L B U R N E R
Burner Guitars

I used to use a cutaway mold like that for the fox .. but you do have some unsupported parts of the bend, only relying on the waist bar to hold the backside firm against your slats ...

since I made this about a year ago or so, its been absolutely painless ... based on John How's bender mod spring loaded arms (I now use this on upper bout bends in the full fox config as well) - dubbed "the hulk" by one of my students, and OLF member Rick Cowan. i use a 5x12 2.5 watt blanket, full blast, and the bend takes about two minutes .. the top slat is screwed into the back of the solid form, so the tension on the slat increase as the bend comes around - bends binding and side purf as well just as easy

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Todd, thanks for expanding - makes it much more clear. Thinking I might set up a practice with junk wood as good starting point.

Tony - thanks for sharing that simple jig - think even i could master that - with some practice.

Thanks again guys.

In the "Video and Picture Tutorial" board under "Archived Tutorials" then under "Cutaways" is this tutorial
http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10102&t=12750"

Thanks for the pics and descriptions, guys. How do you like to make the little wedge block for the cutaway point (interior block, not the binding)? I've done one and it turned out okay but it was hard to get a good fit and kind of awkward to handle a small piece like that.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

Hello Paul,

That may have been my Florentine cutaway thread you were thinking of.





Here is a link to that thread :




viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=24419&p=332146&hilit=florentine+cutaway#p332146

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CRAIG LAWRENCE of AUSTRALIA
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I have also built with a bound Florentine tip (With a three way mitre ) .
Using a side purfling like I have here makes it a little tricky to have everything line up .





To bend the cutaway piece ,I have made a form much like a side bending form and use my Fox style bender and blanket ( sorry , I have no pics of this )

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