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Many years ago I bought a billet of highly figured Honduran mahogany (reportledly from "The Tree", although I cannot document). I recently resawed it into 8 fantastic sets and was eager to start building.. Using my usual bending setup (Fox, heat blanket, spring steel slats) the first side snapped in half at the upper bout. I thinned the next one to around .08,, omitted the spritz, cranked up the heat a bit only to have it break at the waist. I thinned another to .075, and fired up my rarely used bending iron- snapped like a cracker at the waist. I left it alone for almost a year, thinking I might have to sand it into veneer and laminate.. Enter SuperSoft- I sprayed down a side last night, and put into the bender this morning- perfect bend!!! I am one happy guy.Obviously, I am going to be using it from here on out.

Is it just me, or do other people find it a rarity when a seemingly hopeless situation works out?

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