@powerful Pints certainly do come tonight, after a long motorbike ride in the sun I’m ready for a few.

That’s point taken mate. The pint comes tonight

Sound advice Rocknroller much appreciated. As I say it’s all pie in the sky at the moment but worth thinking about. Thanks for your input on this pint taken. Cheers

@powerful It could work however too much moisture can cause a ripple effect across the wood as the steam is absorbed differently by different parts of the grain eg flame maple where there is light and...

@powerful can’t hurt to try as long as your experiment isn’t on expensive wood, I expect your main issue might be that you won’t get an even temperature over the length of the tube. I’ve not bent wood...

Yes Tej me too which led me to believe that directly introducing steam would simplify things a bit. I know people use steam boxes so maybe this would give similar results. Again I'm only guessing and ...

I think I might. It seems plausible to me but I really have no idea. Hopefully someone will stop me making a catastrophic error before I jump straight in (which is what I usually tend to do). If I can...

I think that you should try it out for us all @powerful and let us know how you get on. 👍😁 🎶🎸🙏🙂

Hi. Looking at all the ways to bend a accoustic side and watching Marks' youtube video, it appears that the fundamental thing to bending is the creation of steam. So if this is the case, would a pipe ...

@koendb v4 for me 😬 If you still had an asymmetrical end but took the curve from the lower wing through the neck end into the top wing I think that might look best, to me at least. So it would...

@koendb You could always use a bridge with a separate tailpiece to occupy some of the bump?

@koendb I think what doesn’t sit right is the curve into the flat end of the neck then the angled take off on the top wing, it doesn’t look intentional. Hard to explain where I’m coming from here. Had...

@koendb like it! A couple of points, personally I’d make the angle the top wing comes off the bridge end of the through neck more shallow, it looks a bit harsh to me which doesn’t quite work when the ...

Welcome @hudsoncustoms I'm sure you are going to have some invaluable experience for us all as well as learning some new skills. Cheers, Russ 🎶🙏🎸🙂

Hi @tej I got some of their Trade G clamps a few weeks ago in their sale and they are excellent quality. I would imagine that these parallel clamps will be fairly decent quality too. They are still hi...

Welcome @powerful. Enjoy the ride. There are a lot of experienced folks here who will happily help answer your questions. Watch Mark's course all the way through first. Then go back and follow it thr...

@russ have you got any of their clamps?

Hello Peeps, Just incase anyone is interested...... 🙂🎸🙏🎶

hammered dulcimer @hudsoncustoms I had to look up what that was, curious instrument! Welcome to the forum anyway, what did you have in mind to build?

Though not a stranger to the world of building custom musical instruments "from scratch," I am relatively new to the custom guitar building realm. I grew up building high-end hammered dulcimer (of all...