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Location: ranson,wva | ok guys heres a question...ive got a nice spruce topset that ive been putting off finishing for about9 months now(thanks chris) i need to knwo how think to plane the tops. my old highschool shop teacher is letting me use the woodshop at the school to join,plane and rough out the shape of the top.
its gonna be a deep(or shallow) bowl classical cutaway 14 fretter....any info is greatly apericated...jas |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think .126" |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | That's awfully close to 1/8". Kinda thick I would think... But, who am I ? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually it should be around .111 in the front and 100 in the back. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Like a reverse mullet...
Is it the same thickness for a steel Strung? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Actually it should be around .111 in the front and 100 in the back.  |
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Location: ranson,wva | this is a project ive been putting off for too long.
im gonna build a custom 3 peice neck,2in at the nut,slothead. i wanna use a bowl but i dont want the typical standard ovation cutaway. i want more of a TAK classical cutaway...maybe a carved adamas I bridge. bass side multi holes with no eppi's....maybe a thin body A/E wood box...who knows..im open for ideas tho |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | WOW ..!!..Jason , Buddy ,..Good Luck !!..( and I mean that !! )..sounds like a real Head -Ache to me..
Vic
..ehr , what exactly is it that you want to do ..??..thin A/E Wood box ..No Eppi`s..Chinese take -away..?.. |
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Location: ranson,wva | not sure yet vic. maybe a thin body acoustic electric wood box. may be a ssb...who knows |
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Location: Vernon CT | Jason,
You thinking about moving to New Hartford??
Start a new career? :D :D |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | My tennis buddy, who owns a CNC, wood office furniture manufacturing business, has a 36" belt sander, and tells me I need to attach the rough top to a piece of 3/4" plywood, and then the top can be thinned to a tolerance of a few thousanths.
I intend to run out a couple of tops to 3/32", for a couple of projects, including a cedar-top shallowbowl, with Adamas bracing. |
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Location: ranson,wva | chris,i want pictures of your bracing.. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Drawings, or actual construction? You may have a bit of a wait, for the latter. |
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Location: ranson,wva | anything lol im about 2 months out in teh build. im gonna start work when the kids are out of school here |
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Location: ranson,wva | its gonna be a superthin body wood box. im gonna get the back and sides from lmi not sure on teh wood yet. maybe european pear or something |
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question about the thickness of a top
