Steam, pressure, and patience.

I essentially have an inside an outside mold that gets loaded with a wet piece of wood sandwiched between slats of spring steel and heating blankets.

As the blankets start to heat, the wood starts to soften and can be slowly pressed into position starting at the waist and moving out along the bouts. This takes a bit of technique as you need to move quick before the wood dries out and stops being pliable, but you also need be patient otherwise the wood could break from the forces.

It’s a balancing act that is actually a lot easier than it sounds.

They’re all guitars.

From left to right: OM, slope shoulder OO, slope shoulder dread.

Those “corners” are tabs for machining. Location references for other jobs later on.

Thanks! I’m hoping to get the rims bent this week, and hopefully blocked up. Maybe if I say it on the internet then it’ll actually happen…

I believe the suspect that the police have identified was a firearms instructor at a military base down in Saco.

I haven’t read anything about it, so I can’t say for sure, but I work in the Lewiston area and I’ve heard both the bowling alley and bar to be more “local” oriented businesses.

The Walmart distribution center is a weird one though, because it’s not really a store front.

Whatever his motivations are, it breaks my heart to see it happen in our neck of the woods.

As someone in New England whose extended family lives on the Idaho/Montana border, I’d remain blissfully boned for travel options.

Otherwise, love the design.