Side Bending, a challenging Contradiction. Using the traditional hot bending iron to bend guitar sides remains the most versatile method of doing this important task but simultaneously also the most daunting

Restoring a mandolin from 1911 The Story of the Mandolin Part One Episode 1. April 1980 It’s April 1980 … a cool late morning in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I’m sitting on my crate plank ‘easy chair’,