Guitar Back And Sides Thickness

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Guitar back and sides thickness.

One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated. If it s too thin i could see it being brittle and not as strong acoustically. Aaa indian rosewood backs and sides set jumbo guitar luthier back and side. Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi.

Some wood may go down to about 065 to 070 again depending. I also talk about the thickness of figured woods and bending a cutaway. 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.

Want to really learn more. Guitar back side dreadnought tamarind spalted set aaaa18 luthier tonewood book. If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound. It is the most even guitar i ve ever played.

Mahogany dreadnought guitar back side set aaaa luthier tonewood book match. Want more of this. Subscribe below for weekly guitar making tips from diy guitarmaking. Josh you have guitar building rules.

This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides. Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar 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. Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood.

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