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I got herringbone to bend by soaking it in a shallow sinkful of warm water for about 15 min. I taped wax paper to the guitar body to protect it from getting wet, and clamped and taped the binding in place 'til it dried. The soak-it-in-water method evidently is highly dependent on the species of wood...

If you could come up with a suitable way of cloning something akin to their funky behind-the-bridge tuner/tailpiece combo, you could just about get away with a full-scale or nearly so (sacrifice a couple frets off the top) Steinberger style headless guitar. Or just find a fixer upper on eBay.

Rodger Knox wrote:Here's what I did on a challenge a while back...
(edit)Top was about 3/32" thick and the back was about 1/4".

I might have just been the lighting, but that looks like pressure treated lumber. If it's PT, did you have any issues gluing it?

I just made a doozy on my first (well, second, but the first one got set aside and postponed and... anyhow...). The cheap yardsale bandsaw I picked up was DOA - bent shaft on the lower wheel - so I was forced to use my 35yo B&D jigsaw to rough out the body blank. Since it was old and tired and p...