I may have watched this video a dozen times. I made a jig almost just like yours and just bent my very first side. The smell was really great! I felt surprisingly confident. It just have been from watching you work. Thanks very much for sharing your skill.

the absolute best vid I've seen yet on this.thanks.

Thank you for sharing this, really nice to see a craftsman at work.

What a great video, a Master Craftsman in his shop ... How someone can take blocks and strips of wood and shape in this way is awesome .... Don’t let the material command you, you command the material 👍. A tree and Mr. Kuijk walk into a bar, only Mr. Kuijk and fine guitar walk out ...

this is amazing. awesome to see people do work by hand like this. keep up the videos!

Thank you for sharing this technique. I feel ready to bend my first set of sides now!

wow its almost meditative to just watch the process...love it thanks

Simply the best guitar building video I've ever seen.

Now there is a man who knows how to sharpen a scraper!

Thank you for this video and great tip with the board around the bending iron for keeping the sides level. I hope you don't mind me borrowing that idea 😊

Hier heb ik wat aan een rustig stuk vakwerk met uitleg en geen woord teveel! Dank je Ad.

Sir, Having watched luthiers attempt to bend sides for many years now (25 years, or so) this is by far the most helpful video clip I've seen. You are a Master Luthier indeed. Thank you for letting those of us with less skill learn from you. With great appreciation, David Lee

Great video and nice to see old-school technique.

Thank You so much. I really appreciate the sharing of Your knowledge and skill.

Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!👍❤️

Thank you for the excellent Video. The timing is perfect as I'm getting ready to bend my 1st side set. Luv the platform...!

Awesome! coming up in the next few newby task. Thank You for sharing!

Wunderschönes, präzises Werk! Es war mir ein Vergnügen, Sie bei der Arbeit gesehen zu haben, danke und liebe Grüße aus Ungarn.🎸

Just to add my praise to those comments already posted - the table surrounding the iron is a brilliant way to control the side bends. Also just watched Chuck Morrison’s YT video with his iron projecting horizontally from the bench. You have inspired me to build a jig that combines both concepts 😁

Thank you for posting this. I'm ready to bend my first set of sides, and seeing your approach gives me more confidence to try it. I very much like your clamping setup for gluing the halves of the back together.

Brilliant clamping method! I am more of a furniture/ cabinet builder and I have never seen this method before.

Absolutely Fabulous!!!!

stunning wedge and string technique ..copying that ...

Beautiful work. I love it. Saludos.

It looks and sounds very authentic!

Ad van Kuijk- This is a great lesson on bending sides and some fine points along the way. Seeing it done right will save me lots of time and mistakes I don’t need to make. I’ll be working with African Blackwood. It has to be right! Thanks a bunch.

an excellent video, thank you!

Nice work!!

Mooi werk Ad, prachtig om je zo bezig te zien en erg leerzaam. Groet, Bart.

Amazing work and your music is beautiful!

Thank you for your video

Bravo!

thank you for this video. A lot of very useful info.

Bravissimo comunque...marvellous...magic hands👍❤

Wow! Thank you.

Thank you for this enlightened video. Best wishes

Merci, et bravo pour cette vidéo ! cela montre bien comment s'y prendre si on veut "essayer" de faire pareil ! il manquera toujours ce savoir faire qui s' acquiert avec le temps et de nombreuses guitares ! belle démonstration !

I just subscribed. i really like your videos. Thank you

Sir I am your great fan

Excelente video,me ha sido de gran ayuda, al hora de juntar el fondo se puede poner un trocito de papel , en vez de encerar. muchas gracias.

Wow, thank´s for your knowlegde sharing! How great to see to make it! And how beautyful the process to made a guitar, it´s really like, I will begin my first selfmade too! So my question, which wood is good to begin?

Love the table and how it helps ensure 90 degree bends. Also using the side molds at the end to refine.

I remember reading about some Luthier that would use the hot water pipes in the building he was in.

muito bom

Nice work and tools, i am a guitar builder too.

Thank you! Ok, now I'm off to make one myself.

Brilliant. Guitar making and playing. Have you more videos coming 🙏

Hi Sir this is really meaningful video.. thanks for share your knowledge to all of us.. as i watch the video from 0 sec to the end.. I'm curious about the liquid you use for binding the wood on 14:45 is that just water or special liquid.. thankyou overmuch

I really enjoy your videos. I am just starting out guitar making and am learning a lot. That rosewood is amazing. Where did you get it from?

Thank you for sharing your skills it is much appreciated! I like the way of clamping backs, I will use it for harp backs, thank you! And about jointing wood by hand - yes you have control, and it is super silent and super meditative but the question is time :) So do normally just hand plane? Or do you use power planer/jointer? Thanks, Tomáš

12 minutes! It took me 2 hours to bend my first side! 😂

I enjoyed watching the whole process! I will be building a guitar soon and have been pondering how to make sure that I don’t bend the sides at an angle. Your table addition to the bending iron is great! Is that a wax pencil you are using when you mark on the wood where the corrections need to be made?

Ziet er goed uit ad! Ik ben bezig om mijn eigen uke te bouwen maar ik heb weinig goed gereedschap. Het hout wat ik gebruik is pallethout (vrij poreus door droogte) het zal niet zo mooi klinken als een uke van €1000,- maar ik hoop er toch muziek uit te krijgen haha. Fijn weekend!

BEAUTIFULLY MADE.AND EXPLAINED .VERY NICE PIECE OF BACK AND SIDE.. IS IT BRASILIAN ROSE WOOD?NICE VIDEO. THANK YOU.

Ingenious clamping method for the back

Hi Ad, Thanks for your good sharing,so i would like to know what type of your block plane. is it low angle from Veritas or not?

hey man! im also making a guitar.... and i want a sujjestion that what thing i used in my guitar instead of tunning pegs .....and very nyc vedio

Many thanks for your inspiration. Wonderful work! Could you please answer the question which planes (exact name and number) you've used in this video? Thanks in advance!

That's the step I missed at around 3:40. Heat the wood up and rub the side with swiss cheese.

Dear Ad,Nice to meet you! Pardon with a question to you! Im also a guitar-maker , but I had been facing some problem. When I removing the more of thickness on rosewood,the wood will scratched up. The angle of the blade I using for is 40°. What is the degree(the angle of blade) you using for?

Great work as always Ad! Can I ask you where you picked up the bending iron & if it can be used to bend standard guitar sides? Thanks, Steve

Hi..anyone here have the plans of an om or ooo acustic guitar?

Excellent! subscribed . do you follow any books? I am thinking do one.

Please add measurements and dimensions

鉋で直線とったのにペーパーをなんでかけるか気になる！直線が取れなかったのかまかね(垂直)が狂っていたのか…

Or just use a bending jig! Only joking, fantastic work.

poderia me dizer que cola é essa? fiquei espantado!!!

me: Man, those strings aren't going to ho....ooohhh no shiiiitttt.....

I noticed that the guitar shape drawing when the two top sides are glued together are not perfectly aligned, does it matter? How do you fix that? 24:48

why did he put the "shaved" wood inside the water?

Hey man where do you get your wood from? I'm looking for a place that can sell good exotic wood could you help me out plz

How long to keep in the mold to cool the sides?

Do all woods react the same

Sanding after the shooting board? And all that wobbling while sanding? Not sure whats going on there. I thought the whole point of the shooting board was to get the joint right in the first place.

hey zomaar een gedachte he, gedurende het buigen, koel je dat metaal dan niet af, doordat je er eigenlijk steeds water op doet? Voor mij lijkt het gedurende het buigen dat het steeds minder makkelijk buigt. net alsof je je hem wat langer weer moet laten opwarmen?

3.50 minutes - this wax?

That’s not at all like the way I bend sides. It’s funny how differently people go about doing the same thing and achieve the same results

There is 0 gained by not using a thickness sander. Ok after another five minutes of watching it has become obvious that you put way to much effort into this. My hats off to you for using rudimentary methods but for me ......I haven't got the time.

This one really made me laugh, "bending sides like they've done for centuries". Can someone tell me if they used 110 or 220 volt bending irons centuries ago? LOL

An electric bending pipe- How luthiers have done it for centuries.

Non resisto...non co credo...anni 2000 e ancora come nel 1800? Ma è per far vedere quanto uno è bravo o per davvero? 1500 euro, una calibratrice , mezz" ora e tutto fatto. Meglio, più pulito e preciso. Tanto se la sai far suonare, suona lo stesso...

Overall I like the video but you could easily edit it down and skip the amount of footage for each stage. I skipped through it and in one minute saw the most important info from each step. No reason for it to be 25 minutes long unless people have never done this before. Don't get me wrong, nice video, but would benefit from editing in my opinion and I say that as a guitar builder AND video producer.

White text over white background? Can't read titles...

Title: Bending Guitar SIDES by Hand... First 8 minutes of the video: Building Guitar Tops... Click-bait? Poor editing? Oh well, back to Ken Parker...