Jody,
I know you live in Newburgh but power and natural gas should be out your way this year, hang in there!
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:11 pm ] |
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does anyone know how luthiers bent their sides in the days before electricity and bottled propane gas???? Jody |
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| Author: | KThomas [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:23 pm ] |
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Jody, I know you live in Newburgh but power and natural gas should be out your way this year, hang in there! |
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| Author: | KThomas [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:32 pm ] |
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OK, seriously I have seen someone use a pipe filled with charcoal, I think it may have been on Robbie O'brien's DVD on Steel String Construction, if he can do it with Kingsford I'm sure the old timers could have used hot coals or coal perhaps. What's up with the question, are you thinking of trying something along this line? |
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| Author: | David Collins [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:58 pm ] |
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Hot pipes and steam have never been hard to come by. You could probably bend fine around a fireplace chimney if it were stiff enough. I know some old Flemish harpsichords have the inside edges of the bent side charred to a coal, and were essentially thrown in to a fire to heat them. My mother-in-law's house is surrounded by Amish property, and they bend some pretty thick oak for chair backs by steaming them in a chamber before pressing them in to form, which is how a friend of mine still bends his harpsichord sides. There's oodles of ways to apply heat that aren't really that different, we just use a more convenient power supply now. |
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:00 pm ] |
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sorry I missed your post Kurt , I was in the outhouse ! LOL, actualy I will probably try the hot pipe and propane torch ...but I was curious as to how they did it , and I might try it.... Jody |
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:03 pm ] |
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Thanks David ,,, Jody |
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:08 pm ] |
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HMMMMMM I have a wood stove insert going in my living room right now... no stove pipe but I wonder.......the top is hot enough to simmer water ( hotter if I stoke it) .........hmmmmmmm lets see..... maybe if I......... |
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| Author: | FishtownMike [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:20 pm ] |
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They boiled the sides and then bent them in forms. |
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| Author: | KThomas [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:23 pm ] |
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Hey Jody, Did'nt Frank work at Martin, he would probably remember. |
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:35 pm ] |
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he did . but i realy hate pestering him... I saw him this weekend....he ( very reluctantly) sanded a back for me ,it would have been nice to hang out in the shop again, but he was having a guitar workshop.. so he was busy ... jody |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:55 pm ] |
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[QUOTE=KThomas] OK, seriously I have seen someone use a pipe filled
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:10 pm ] |
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Even Irving Sloane boiled the sides and bent them on a form. He wasn't that long ago. Truth is, if you were pretty good at it, you could heat an iron pipe in a fire, take it out and bend a side before reheating, but charcoal or coals from a fire would work fine. |
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| Author: | Jody [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:48 pm ] |
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boiling the sides sounds like too much moisture, in the wood, to deal with...if I can figure a way to " fixturize" LOL ( is that a word?) my wood stove I will try it , I already have sides bent for my first solo build .. but i want to try a hybrid, with some cypris I have ... and of course i have many mnay more guitars to build ..... Jody |
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| Author: | FishtownMike [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:15 pm ] |
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You ask how they did it in the old days. This technique go's back hundreds of years maybe even thousand's. This technique was used in regular woodworking too. Irving Sloane was a master and I don't think his instruments ever suffered with this technique. You should pick up all his books they are very interesting...Mike |
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| Author: | martinedwards [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:52 pm ] |
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I read somewhere that Stradivarius used the chimney of his stove |
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| Author: | Claire [ Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:00 pm ] |
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I read a blog somewhere once from a guy who build using hand tools only. He bent his sides on an old violin maker's spirit burner. Claire |
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| Author: | Jody [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:06 am ] |
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thanks guys , Mike I am not saying sloane's technique is a bad one, I just see, in my situation , I dont want to need to allow the sides to sit for a long period of drying time, plus if I clamped them into a form,saturated ,with the materials available today for forms, I wonder how long the forms would last . ... its just me ...I see a huge adantage in spritzing the wood and bending on some type of iron... thanks Jody |
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:40 am ] |
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In a GAL issue years ago there was an article by a guy who trained in France or Italy to become a violin maker ... part of the final exam was to bend a set of sides on a pipe/bar that had been heated in the fire only once, so you had to be quick, and good - no breaking allowed, or you failed !!! |
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:48 am ] |
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Exactly what I was talking about. Once it's hot, it'll hold the heat if the mass is sufficient. My iron that I made, once heated to 350 or so, takes nearly an hour to go below 250*. That's almost long enough for, even, me to bend a side. |
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| Author: | Sam Price [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:12 am ] |
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I bend my sides using an old North Sea oil pipe tapped into the upper mantle of Gamkonora volcano on Halmahera island. |
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:34 am ] |
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Organic Side Bending, Sam? 
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| Author: | Jody [ Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:39 am ] |
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Sam .. that might work for a "jumbo" guitar but......... LOL Jody |
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