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JayBee · June 14th, 2009, 02:47 PM

Just today I got my homebuilt b bender working as a bender. Nearly the culmination of a 10 week build from scratch project.

If you CS, think you're in an exclusive club on your side of the pond, get an idea of how I feel with a working, passable imitation of a Parsons White long stroke, in a very Tele like guitar, in the UK!. B benders over here are rare and the integrated (not bolt on PG) almost unseen. In this country even amongst guitar players the term "b bender" will get 9 "what's that?" to 1 "Oh yeah, I know".
So 40 years after buying the Untitled LP, seeing Clarence with the Byrds live and thinking "how the hell does he do that?" I've now got the basic guitar, but not a fraction of the ability, in fact I've never even handled a bender guitar till yesterday.
Some would say "how illogical", but with 9 self build or much modded projects behind me and an unhealthy attack of GAS, I had to do it!

Some of you will understand!.

More work needed, setup and wiring, but that's fairly straightforward compared to all the routing and metalwork!.
Finally, sorry beep.click but the guitar weighs 7lb 3oz, light for a b bender?.

Maybe some pics in a week or so, if anyone's interested.

June 14th, 2009, 02:47 PM	#13 (permalink)
JayBee Tele-Meister Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Taunton, Somerset, UK Posts: 124	Can I Join yer Club? Just today I got my homebuilt b bender working as a bender. Nearly the culmination of a 10 week build from scratch project. If you CS, think you're in an exclusive club on your side of the pond, get an idea of how I feel with a working, passable imitation of a Parsons White long stroke, in a very Tele like guitar, in the UK!. B benders over here are rare and the integrated (not bolt on PG) almost unseen. In this country even amongst guitar players the term "b bender" will get 9 "what's that?" to 1 "Oh yeah, I know". So 40 years after buying the Untitled LP, seeing Clarence with the Byrds live and thinking "how the hell does he do that?" I've now got the basic guitar, but not a fraction of the ability, in fact I've never even handled a bender guitar till yesterday. Some would say "how illogical", but with 9 self build or much modded projects behind me and an unhealthy attack of GAS, I had to do it! Some of you will understand!. More work needed, setup and wiring, but that's fairly straightforward compared to all the routing and metalwork!. Finally, sorry beep.click but the guitar weighs 7lb 3oz, light for a b bender?. Maybe some pics in a week or so, if anyone's interested.