One of the most beautiful cutaways for an acoustic 6-string or 12-string guitar is the Florentine Cutaway. The sharp bend that is required for the cutaway side is often quite a difficult bend to make, especially for the unexperienced luthier.
Our Florentine Cutaway Bender - Guitar Plans make this a simple task and minimizes cracking your expensive sides. Let's face it if you have perfectly bend sides and ruin the Florentine bend, you have to toss out the entire set. Not a pretty option.
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Our new Florentine Bender attachment easily fastens to our Heated Guitar Bender and uses the waist retainer to bend the cutaway, while the fixture is held firmly in place on the bender. It sits on the front and back end blocks and easily attached with 2 screws. You can even use 6" stainless steel slats and the silicone heating blanket that is used for the sides. Just insert the sandwich, plug in the blanket to the temperature controller and start bending. Use the same procedure as is used for sides.
These plans include complete dimensioned drawings for (2) different sizes of cutaways. The 44mm radius bender is for smaller body guitars and the 60mm radius bender is for larger body guitars. Refer to our new line of Florentine Cutaway Acoustic Guitar Plans which detail all aspects of the cutaway.
Plans include (2) very detailed drawings giving you all of the detail you will need to build this bender with ease.
Florentine Cutaway Bender - Guitar Plan Content:
Sheet 1: Full Size drawings showing complete detail of Florentine Cutaway Bending Jigs, complete with construction notes, fasteners, and complete dimensions of the jig.
Sheet 2: Florentine Cutaway Attachment Template sheet with all parts, full size and dimensioned.