B-Bender

B-BENDER

The Basic of the B-Bender Guitar

Here’s a picture of the inside of the Parson/White B-Bender.

B-Bender Makers

This is a list of SOME of the B-Bender makers. If you know of others who are good please email me and I’ll add them to this list!

Parson/White	This is the original B-Bender as created by Gene Parson and Clarence White. This system it’s quite invasive.
Parson/Green	This is a variation of the previous one and it’s the one Fender uses on the Nashville B-Bender Telecaster.
Dave Evans	The most famous user of this type is Albert Lee. It’s again a quite invasive system.
Joe Glaser	Joe is Nashville’s most famous luthier (guitar repair). He’s the man responsible for most of the B-Benders used in Nashville (and on most country recordings). The Glaser bender are the less invasive. Together with the McVay I think this is the best B-Bender available.
Charlie McVay	Charlie does all the G-Bender for Brad Paisley. He uses a similar system to the Glaser so it’s again no-invasive. As for the Glaser, this one is as good as it gets IMHO.
Hipshot	Will Ray of Hellecasters is the most famous user of this type of bender. It’s a bit different from all the others and not invasive at all! (Just two screws and that’s it!). It feels different from a normal bender so you just have to try and see if it ‘works’ for you.
Various	There are many variations available for the B-Bender: Bigsby Palm Bender, Hipshot Palm Lever, Duesenberg Guitars multibender.

B-Bender Famous Songs

This is a list of SOME of the songs where a B-Bender has been used. Honestly this list could become stupidly long.. so I’m just writing a few… If you have better suggestions, please email me!

The Byrds	Tulsa Country
The Eagles	Peaceful Easy Feeling
Albert Lee	Sweet Little Lisa
Alan Jackson	All American Country Boy
Dwight Yoakam	Blame The Vain
Sunny Sweeney	Refresh My Memory (acoustic B-Bender in action!!)

What strings shall I buy?

Any set of string would do the job, but most people would use a 0.13 for the B (which is a normal B string in a 0.10-0.46 set). The reason is simply because it doesn’t break as easily as a thinner one!

	Ernie Ball: Slinky 10-46
	Ernie Ball makes probably the best strings for electric guitar!
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