Unlock the Secrets of Flawless Guitar Bends Side Thickness Essentials

All of the veneers used were standar 0.5-0.6mm thick so with the two outer show layers and the two core layers of maple or mahogany they were coming out of the ... My sides and binding are always around 0.080". For the cutaway of my next gypsy guitar I go on the cutaway to .060". Yeahh. FWIW. Herman. Compressed Curly Ambrosia Maple Plank for guitar sides or similar. Resaw to any thickness for bending. 1/4" thickness will bend to a radius as tight as 1" ... Laminating the sides of your guitar will produce stiffer sides than a solid piece of wood that is steam bent. Also, steam or heat bending is ... I used a thin kerf 7 1/4" (185 mm) blade, so as to waste less material, and to be easier on my saw. I cut from both sides to resaw a thin strip. 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 ... How Thin should Guitar Sides be? In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I discuss the range of appropriate thickness for bending guitar sides. Most of my gigging guitars have .010s as they give the right sound and sustain for the music my current band plays, and a couple of songs have 4 ... I would say that .080" to .085" would be a general average. Some wood may go down to about .065" to .070" again depending. Traditionally, the sides, or "ribs" of classical guitars are bent from a solid piece of wood that is somewhere around 2 to 2.2 mm thick.