The Golden Ratio of Guitar Side Thickness for Bending

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Things like cutaways can be very difficult. Everything is possible, but for extra tight bends, make sure you have extra wood to work with, just in case! For ... I was nevertheless nervous before bending these sides, as a guitar side is more complicated than a mandolin. ... The next steps will be to bend ... Top thicknessing is critical to the finished sound of the instrument, and will vary depending on wood used, and how stiff that particular piece ... All of the wood for this guitar will be cut from the same billet, except the soundboard and bridge. ... The thin sides are bent over a home-made bending iron, a ... The width of side pieces always starts at the height of the tail block and that dimension will change, depending on the guitar you are planning to build. And so ... How Thin Should Guitar Sides Be? DIY Guitar Making•19K views · 20:19 ... How to Bend Guitar Ribs: With Gary Southwell | Luthier's Bench Ltd. That sounds good to me for a flamenco guitar. Mine are about 2.5 mm in the center and 2.0 at the edges. Once it's glued to the sides, the edges ... Before bending them, Kinkead, in his book, "Build Your Own Acoustic Guitar", recommends taking them down to 5/64" or just a little over .08 inches thick. I was ... It tells us that, at least in the classic guitar, one can go as thin as 1/16” (about 1-1/2 mm) and still have the instrument hold together. That's useful to ... The sides, really for most any guitar body, should be 0.075" to 0.080" thick. For curly maple, it helps to treat with Supersoft 2 overnight to help minimize ...
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