Any bender or double bender players here?

[Rick Towne]

Any one visiting from the Clarence White Forum or TDPRI? I have a Glaser B, Glaser B/G double and two P-W B benders. I'm particularly interested in finding anyone actually using both benders as a part of their regular style.

[Rick Towne]

Just curious....

[Rick Towne]

Renewal

[stucker]

Over the years I learned to do B bender style licks without one. It's difficult to get the intonation dead-on every time bending up but going down (coming out of the string bend) is usually pretty convincing.

I've always wanted a B bender but never wanted to cut up my guitars to have one installed. Hopefully, some other players will chime in!

[icarusi]

Originally Posted by stucker

I've always wanted a B bender but never wanted to cut up my guitars to have one installed. Hopefully, some other players will chime in!

There was a guy doing a bender mech using a single hole drilled internally from the strap button to behind the bridge, no routing. The only thing visible on the back was a small metal plate the size of a large postage stamp. Unfortunately I was never able to track down the luthier. The example I did see was on a Squire Tele but the B string was snapped so wasn't able to try it.

[SBRocket]

I got an amazing tele with a b-bender built by Ron Kirn a few months ago and I am incorporating it into my playing. It is a heck of a challenge to use it appropriately. I am addicted to it and just want to use it all the time.

It's a blast and was definitely worth the commitment.

SB

[Austinrocks]

Will Ray of the staycats uses the benders, I played one at the store yesterday, a tele with three pups llike a strat, really find the b bender limiting, really should go up higher and it does not for me, but I guess thats just me and if I owned one would work up licks that incorporate it, the tele was $1300 with the bender, and I do prefer strats to teles.

I find the tremolo on the strat set up to go up in pitch, and press on the bridge, gives me better bend, and its more notes and range the b benders,

[Tonesmiths]

Check out this demo of the Duesenberg Multibender in action. It'll blow your mind! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-0c66NYDk
BTW: It requires no routing whatsoever

[Crowbar]

I have a Hipshot B-bender laying around here somwhere. It attaches to the strap button and looks like a contraption like a Bigsby. I had it on a Lester for a while. It worked fine, only problem was I couldn't shut the case all the way. I think it was $115 from StuMac. Probebly the cheapest option if you wanna try one out, you can put it on one guitar then another if you want.

It worked fine but I never got the hang of it, its in a box somwheres.

[Drumongus]

I am a bender man. I love it but sometimes I forget about it. Have to say my real love is the tele beneath the bender....haha.