Watch me take a regular piece of wood and thin it down to 2mm thick really easi.
Acoustic guitar back and sides thickness.
Thickness is quite often determined by the bending qualities of the particular piece of wood.
Dreadnought back 3mm x 17 x 22 sides 3mm x 5 x 34.
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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.
Was it trial and error.
Back has braces sides have cloth strips.
One can see that thinking about top thickness was getting more sophisticated.
Acoustic guitar tonewood back and side sets.
Through eliminating or amplifying different frequencies produced by the strings these tonewoods can have a considerable effect on the overall tone generated by any.
Not sure how confident you are of your measurement but 030 certainly too thin for guitar sides.
According to chuck traeger even a double bass should ideally have sides as thin as 080.
This is a new method for making really thin wood boards for a guitar s sides.
If it were too thick i could see it really deadening the sound.
Classic back 3mm x 15 x 21 sides 3mm x 4 1 2 x 32.
If it s too thin i could see it being brittle and not as strong acoustically.
I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides.
How did you determine how thick the top back and sides should be.
The top is 090 at the sound hole and i don t know the thickness of the back.
I would say that 080 to 085 would be a general average.
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.
It is the most even guitar i ve ever played.