Seven String Classical Guitar: Bending Curly Maple and Attaching the Sides to the Top
Bending wood by hand to the gentle curves of a guitar silhouette is an unusual skill, one that the guitar builder shares with few other wood workers. Charles Fox, guitar maker, 1998 Some days it seems that no matter how hard you work you just can't get ahead. That was my experience last week. Gluing one side to the heel block Sorry, no photos of bending the curly maple. I will say that this curly big leaf maple that I purchased from The Wood Well , click here for the website, bent like a dream. Bad simile, but I have never had a wood bend so easily, it was even easier than California laurel! Click here for a great discussion on bending sides. When I started out in this thing called lutherie twenty years ago, every person and book that I consulted on bending wood said to steer away from curly maple. This is the third guitar that I have made from curly maple, this is great wood to work with, though a little difficult to plane well. I have yet to work with curly