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Acoustic guitar back and sides thickness.
If it s too thin i could see it being brittle and not as strong acoustically.
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Was it trial and error.
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.
I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides.
Classic back 3mm x 15 x 21 sides 3mm x 4 1 2 x 32.
Some wood may go down to about 065 to 070 again depending.
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I actually like around 070 for guitar sides i think your wood is fine.
Through eliminating or amplifying different frequencies produced by the strings these tonewoods can have a considerable effect on the overall tone generated by any.
I would say that 080 to 085 would be a general average.
Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar sides.
One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated.
Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi.
I also talk about the thickness of figured woods and bending a cutaway.
Back has braces sides have cloth strips.
The top is 090 at the sound hole and i don t know the thickness of the back.
Dreadnought back 3mm x 17 x 22 sides 3mm x 5 x 34.
Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood.
If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound.
Acoustic guitar tonewood back and side sets.
This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides.
According to chuck traeger even a double bass should ideally have sides as thin as 080.
Acoustic guitar tonewood back sides the wood used to form the back and sides of an acoustic guitar sound chamber does a lot more than simply look good and create an enclosure.