Acoustic Guitar Back And Sides Thickness

The top is 090 at the sound hole and i don t know the thickness of the back.

Acoustic guitar back and sides thickness.

Acoustic guitar tonewood back and side sets. 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. This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides. I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides.

I actually like around 070 for guitar sides i think your wood is fine. Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi. Classic back 3mm x 15 x 21 sides 3mm x 4 1 2 x 32. According to chuck traeger even a double bass should ideally have sides as thin as 080.

Want more of this. Josh you have guitar building rules. I also talk about the thickness of figured woods and bending a cutaway. 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.

If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound. If it s too thin i could see it being brittle and not as strong acoustically. Dreadnought back 3mm x 17 x 22 sides 3mm x 5 x 34. How did you determine how thick the top back and sides should be.

One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated. It is the most even guitar i ve ever played. Subscribe below for weekly guitar making tips from diy guitarmaking want read more. Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar sides.

Was it trial and error. Back has braces sides have cloth strips. 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. Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood.