New Steel String Guitar Project. Part 1: Bending the Sides

I'm starting work on another steel string guitar. This is a smaller bodied instrument, roughly the size of a Martin OO. It will have a red cedar top, figured black walnut back and sides, mahogany neck and a multi-scale ebony fretboard designed for DADGAD tuning. The longer bass scale will keep the 6th string stiff when it is tuned below standard pitch. In this first segment, I bend the walnut sides in my very old press which is heated by three 200 Watt light bulbs. I think most builders use heating blankets as their source, but the light bulbs still work fine for me, so I have no reason to switch.