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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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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

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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jw ( o)===:::

That would be nice!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

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"

Thank you!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

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.