E.A.R.S. tuner. Mostly right version, but sometimes also left. They both seem to work equally for me. Pretty good for other instruments ranging from...
That sounds correct to me (for bending dry or with just little moisture on the inside surface) and that's what I've been doing for curly maple sides....
I might add that the reflections in that photograph may be a bit misleading to think the recurve is quite far away from edge near tailpiece. You need...
OFten some rippling is inevitable unless you have precise mould and counter piece that will "iron" the piece flat and keep it there till the bend is...
Perhaps I didn't use good vocabulary, but the cells are long tubes that are pretty much connected into one continuous pipeline all the way up to the...
That process is pretty much how some of the ebony substututes for fingerboards are made. You take some solid hardwood, dye, heat and compress it and...
I don't see any principal difference in mandolin or guitar side bending. Guitar sides being often thinner than mandolins' it should be even simpler....
I prefer traditional stamped for my builds (tradidtion and I like lighter mandolins) but I think James is really thoughtful piece of engineering and...
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