Guitar Back And Sides Thickness

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Guitar back and sides thickness.

Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood. Aaa indian rosewood backs and sides set jumbo guitar luthier back and side. Guitar back side dreadnought tamarind spalted set aaaa18 luthier tonewood book. One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated.

Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar sides. Subscribe below for weekly guitar making tips from diy guitarmaking. This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides. It is the most even guitar i ve ever played.

If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound. I would say that 080 to 085 would be a general average. I also talk about the thickness of figured woods and bending a cutaway. Some wood may go down to about 065 to 070 again depending.

Was it trial and error. How did you determine how thick the top back and sides should be. Josh you have guitar building rules. If it s too thin i could see it being brittle and not as strong acoustically.

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. Want more of this. Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi. 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.

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