Guitar Back And Sides Thickness

I would say that 080 to 085 would be a general average.

Guitar back and sides thickness.

Guitar back side dreadnought tamarind spalted set aaaa18 luthier tonewood book. Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi. Want to really learn more. Acoustic guitar backs sides at stewart macdonald your source for guitar parts tools and supplies.

If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound. This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides. Guitar back side sets 8 1 4 x 23 4 3 4 5 x 34 x 4 5mm click here for uke back sides quartered 4 piece bookmatched sets we usually have a couple thousand sets of indian rosewood back and side sets on hand so if you need more than one or two sets no problem. Mahogany dreadnought guitar back side set aaaa luthier tonewood book match.

Want more of this. I also talk about the thickness of figured woods and bending a cutaway. One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated. It is the most even guitar i ve ever played.

Aaa indian rosewood backs and sides set jumbo guitar luthier back and side. Some wood may go down to about 065 to 070 again depending. I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood.

Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar sides. Was it trial and error. For steel string guitar the recommendation is 1 8 125 or 3 17 mm for a first time project but otherwise ranging from 095 up to 130 2 4 mm to 3 30 mm depending on size and shape of instrument as well as species of wood used. How did you determine how thick the top back and sides should be.

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