Well, looking at the bending form post is interesting to me (especially Richard's SJ L-OO bending form similarity) as I realized that I did something very dumb the other day.
As some of you know, I'm working on a maple/cedar guitar which I've bent the sides in my new side bender, which was compensated for the OM/OOO body size.
So, I've put together the sides, head and tail blocks, linings and was starting to layout the top bracing. I placed the top down than the assembled rim in the mold on top and by gosh, there was about a 1/4" gap at the tail end
what happened.
Well, I take a second and third look at the sides and the top, thinking I cut the top to small but I measured it and it was fine......
Well, I assembled the rims in the wrong mold. I used my Grand Auditorium size mold. Dohhhh!!!!!!!!!
Well, after thinking about throwing the thing across the room, I stopped to think what I would do.
Well, I got out the iron and heated the side over the tail block till the glue softened and I worked the thin blade knife in between the side and block and separated the sides from both the tail and head block. Cleaned up the blocks so they were ready to go.
Now I put the sides into the OM/OOO mold and wouldn't you know it, they fit perfectly, even though I had the linings installed (regular, triangular linings). So I trimmed the ends to the correct length, trimmed back the linings to fit the head and tail block and glued in the blocks.
I sure was wondering why the tail ends were so close to the end joint when I didn't cut them to length before hand.
Well, now I have the molds clearly labeled and I'm sure this won't happen again (knock on wood).
What a bone head
Pictures to come later tonight.
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