{"id":1839,"date":"2012-12-12T20:53:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2012-12-12T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:59:27","slug":"bending-burl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2012\/12\/12\/bending-burl\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending Burl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s cooking right now (redwood burl top for #33):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/photo.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burl and spalted wood is very brittle and full of imperfections. Normally, I cut grooves into my tops along with the bend, then steam the top simply over boiling water for 15 minutes, before clamping into shape and let cool and dry.<\/p>\n<p>But initial trials with scrap wood of spalted walnut snapped and broke, whatever I tried. I studied the tips I could locate and ended up soaking the wood in water overnight as in the image above. I did not cut any grooves into the wood since this would weaken the wood further.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1841\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nervous wait ensued. I then steamed the pre-soaked top (which was literally soaked all the way through) as usual and it turned out that the top became very easy to bend. I clamped it, and heard no snap!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1842\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-2.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission accomplished! But even after two full days of drying, it is still very wet. The shape seems pretty stable though, so now it is simply drying out, taped to another body.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1843\" srcset=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/image-3.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;ll see how the burl behaves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s cooking right now (redwood burl top for #33): Burl and spalted wood is very brittle and full of imperfections. Normally, I cut grooves into my tops along with the bend, then steam the top simply over boiling water for 15 minutes, before clamping into shape and let cool and dry. But initial trials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}