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| Author: | Colin North [ Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
Just looking for a bit of advice from someone who has bent Indian Laurel sides. A search only found one mention, 2007, but Shane was selling some on the forum, so someone may have used it. I've heard it can be tricky to bend. |
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| Author: | joe white [ Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
Bob Cefalu / RC Tonewoods has sold some very nice sets of Indian Laurel and I remember John Ressler building a nice guitar with it. Maybe one of them can shed some info on bending. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Fri Apr 29, 2016 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
That would be nice! |
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| Author: | Gary Gill [ Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
I have used Indian Laurel from LMI on three of my tenor ukuleles. I sized them to .060" thick and bent them on my doolin style bender. About 325 degrees F. My tightest radius is 2" |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
Thank you! |
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| Author: | G.Cummins [ Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anyone built with Indian Laurel? |
I've only used it the once on an L-OO shape. I bent the sides by hand on a bending iron. Thickness was in the 2.1mm region lightly dampened and bent at 170 degrees C. I had no difficulties using this wood quite the opposite in fact. Good luck. |
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