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Alex Kleon
 Post subject: Inside Mold Offset?
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How much offset do you guys/gals have from your bending molds to your inside molds? Bending slat+side= offset, or do you make it a little tighter for any spring back? Or just tighter at the head and tail blocks. Thanks, folks!

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Thats exactly what I have drawn out with my fancy offset gauge - a washer with a hole drilled in the rim!

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I bandsaw the outside mold and the block form out of the same pieces of plywood, and after sanding and cleaning them up with a router wind up with about .10 inch difference. I don't build in anything for spring back.
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About .100...

That and I take about that much again right in the belly of the waist and fair the same head and tail to help account for any spring back.

Oooooo you're getting closer. Cool. Did you build a bender?
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Yup, made a bender last year with a MJ profile. Decided that I wanted to do an SJ instead, so I made a new form last week. I'll take a picture of it tomorrow.
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The new SJ form is all ply, the MJ is ply and mdf. I always have lots of sheet scraps to use up.

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Inside form done.

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Antes parlour guitar bending form made from inside mold scrap.

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Alex, remember with those inside tension blocks that you'll need to get them out of the sound hole (and your hand in there to remove them) so make sure you test them before going live (ask me how I know this.... :) )

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Thanks for the heads-up Rod. The threaded rod and copper pipe are friction fit, so it will all come apart inside the box. I'll probably move the upper bout turnbuckle closer to the waist to accomodate the head block, though.

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