Hello! If you've seen my other posts you'll know I don't have a mandolin yet but I should be buying my first one this week! Anyway;
I've been watching a lot of Jerry Rosa's videos because I find them oddly relaxing and the idea of building and maintaining instruments has always appealed to me. He built his side bender and shares how to do so in videos giving out parts to get.
I know a lot of you stand by the old propane torch in a pipe method for side bending, but is there any reason a heat gun wouldn't work? Grab a 16mm diameter steel tube, shove a heat gun up one end, that way you don't have to deal with flames? (This way you could bend pieces in carpeted/curtained rooms without fear of going up in a blaze)
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