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How do jammy? Im that other guitar building geezer that was at the bike jumble in Leeds. I made a few wooden bars out of various different timbers. My strength and load testing wasn't so scientific, I just jumped on the fuckers. They didn't break. I laminated mahogany with walnut (straight grain mahog with harder but less uniform walnut) and got some fairly stiff wood, fnarr.
How are you going to bend them? I laminated mine first, then turned them, then attempted to steam them very unsuccessfully. Either the wood got hot enough and the it de-laminated or it wasnt hot enough to bend.....