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Location: Burbank | Does anyone know how thick the top is on the country artist? I would assume it is thinner than a steel string right? |
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Location: East Tennessee | I'm not sure about the thickness. It is braced differently,(I think), and I don't think it would handle steel strings. |
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Location: SoCal | The CA has VT bracing and I think the top was a standard thickness. |
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Location: Burbank | And how thick it that...
I have a CA I acquired a while back with no finish. The guy helping me with it seems to think that when it was stripped, half the thickness was taken off with the finish. So he thinks it's too thin. He measured it with caliper but I don't remember the number. But I would like to tell him what it was when it was made anyway. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't know that a guitar top can be "too thin" unless it starts collapsing. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Well, on an old Ovation, the finish IS half the thickness of the top!
So, did that help? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Why does he think it's too thin?
What do you mean by stripped?
If he took the finish off, why did he do that? Much better to fill in finish cracks using other methods, like cy glue. The cy glue leaves barely a witness line and is a better solution than scraping off the top.
If it is, and has been, supporting the strings, what's the problem anyway? |
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Location: Burbank | When I got the guitar it was stripped and had tung oil on it. I want to bring it back to a gloss finish. The friend that is doing it thinks it's too thin. He didn't do the strip it was already done.
Woody, I think the guitar was yours at one time and that you were the one that oiled it. What do you think? Was it stripped already or did you strip it? Do you know what the thickness was/is? |
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Location: Burbank | Also it wasn't supporting string the bridge was off when I got it and need to be put back on. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | He thinks its too thin because ...? |
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Location: Burbank | He builds guitars as a hobby, got a nice shop that he builds them in. He measured the thickness and said that it is thinner than anything he has worked on before. I just assumed that the CA top is thinner being nylon strung and less tension. |
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| Not so - I have a CA and I asked John Budny if I could put silk'n'steels on. He said no problem - he'd seen medium bronzes on without ripping the bridge off (I don't think he was recommending it).
The s'n's strings didn't make my CA sound like a Folklore. It was all a little uninteresting. Pity, I thought I was going to get two guitars out of one. |
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