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Hupaand
PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:26 pm 
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Rosewood is often said to be easy to bend. Santos was easy for me to bend, but Guatamalan made me think I'd break my arms. It was on a pipe and about .080", it ultimately came out pretty well.
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My experience with dense rosewoods is that they comply much better if thinned some more.

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How thin do you go? Guatamalan is said to be really good sounding wood.
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The Guatamalan RW I have is less dense than most rosewoods. It's actually pretty darned light. I haven't tried bending it yet, though I'd assumed, naively perhaps, that it would be relatively easy to bend. Now I'm curious what others have experienced with it. :?
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I normally need to thin the waist and upper bout more than the lower bout. Let's say 0.07 for very dense Madagascar, and even 0.06-0.065 for the waist with Amazon, and the stuff still felt like steel. For average density Indian or Madagascar, 75-80. My shape is similar to 00 and OM.

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