Doing a cutaway with the LMI Bending machine

[rickv123]

I have an LMI bending machine and have used it successfully, but the current version has no ability to bend a cutaway. Even though I managed to bend the sides by hand for the 17" archtop on which I'm currently working, I decided to make a modified setup for bending cutaways on the LMI Bending Machine. A description and some photos can be found at:

http://rvarchtop.wordpress.com/2012/01/ ... des-again/

It is very simple, so I'm not watching the mailbox for my Nobel prize, but it works really well (at least on the curly maple I have been bending).

Regards

Rick