homemade bender instructions

Besides one's fingers, is there a simple, inexpensive b bender that can be built?

I am not the most spatially inclined. It needs to be inexpensive and simple.. very simple.

Thanks in Advance!

Bajaa's Dad

I wouldn't tackle it in that case, and would recommend a Hipshot or Timara. That was their approach and the bugs are already out.

Higgins pegbender too...

I built one that was very inexpensive, less than $50 parts easily. Check out this thread and PM me if you have any questions.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/b-bender-forum/201823-andy-summers-hardware-store-bender.html

I built one that was very inexpensive, less than $50 parts easily. Check out this thread and PM me if you have any questions.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/b-bender-forum/201823-andy-summers-hardware-store-bender.html

Greg actually sent me very detailed drawings and it was fairly easy to build.

I know this is TDPRI and we're all discussing Telecasters but OP hasn't told us what kind of guitar he wants a b-bender on.

The easiest b-bender mechanism to install is the Epiphone EZ-bender but it can only be installed on Gibson type stop-pieces:

http://www.gibson.com/press/photos/EzBender.jpg

http://www.acousticmasters.com/EZBenderOnEpih.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_JIygYbq08Cw/TXmAqnPlb-I/AAAAAAAAECw/r3di261LtCg/s640/Red%20ez-bender.jpg

My own guitar:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JIygYbq08Cw/Sz_afMXg7bI/AAAAAAAADFI/xeiV5KlkFEg/000_0159.JPG

The EZ-bender is no longer sold by Epiphone but you can find it easily on eBay for not much (below 50$ I would say).

Absolutely no mods required to the guitar.