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THE FINLAND BEND

1/12/2022

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I am relieved to report that the wood from Finland bent like a dream.  Here it is just out of the mold after a day of drying.
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The wood is European Birch "Betula Pendula".  It became quite plastic when wetted, bent very easily and came out of the mold after a day of drying, stiff, hard and absolutely zero springback.  surely the easiest wood to bend in my experience.

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Now the ends are trimmed to make a perfect fit on the soundboard.  Tomorrow I will glue it down and secure it with the tentalones.
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Just to be sure everything fit, i set the back on.  It will be fine.  When some nice brown binding is set around the edges this will be a very pretty instrument,
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