Just a reminder.... that's it on the left.........
I'd just rigged a hot pipe to bend on and had tried a set of maple for a mandonaught, then I thought..... "Why not?" and started into the granadillo.
My bending experience is VERY limited. I've bent a set of EIR and some maple, so I'm not a master......
What I can say, is that this stuff takes AGES and a load of heat to start to "give". I'd planed it to the same thickness as the maple sides (as low as the planer/thicknesser will go) and the maple was FAR easier to bend.
There was a little of the grain letting go on the outside of the curves too. not cracking as such, just a few bits that'll need CAed back down again.
Ok yes, it's as splitery as splintery stuff!! I spent half a night with a needle retrieving all the bits from my hands..........
still, I do like the look of it, and it'll eventually be a guitar for a friend, topped by the lump of cedar laying on top of it here.........
Yes I know that there are some gluey drips on the inside, but none on the outside yet!!!!
Thanks Hibdon, I couldn't have got here without you!!!!!
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