MIMF

Hello from Australia For the past several years I have been working on a book about the history of mandolins called The Mandolin - a history. It is just about ready for the printers and to pay for the printing I have launched a Kickstarter project. I need to sell around 500 copies to pay for the pri...

The link to the article on steam bent/moulded soundboards published in American Lutherie in 1998 is on this page http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/links.html
The pictures in the original publication were in the pre-digital photo age, so I don't know where they have got to.

cheers

graham

Excellent to hear the rules are not as bizarrely restrictive as they used to be. Anyway here is the link http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/Zoukbook/Moulded_Soundboards.pdf I hope it might be of some use. I did have the GAL article available as a download, which gave a bit more background to the evoluti...

I soaked the soundboard halves, thicknessed to around 7-8mm, overnight and them wrapped them in oven bag material and sealed them up. Into the oven at 250-300F and wait until the bags got all puffed up and the wood was flexible, around 20 minutess. After that much as you have been doing it. I did th...

An alternative to the steam box is sealing the wood in oven bags and cooking then in the oven. Never tried it with hardwoods, but it works OK with spruce.

cheers

graham