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What do you you folks take you backs and sides to when you start your build. Do you use the same for dreds and OM's?

.10-.090 depending on the wood

Hesh, you do know you have just caused the world to come to its inevitable end.

that is twice someone agreed with me today MichaelP39066.677349537

I sometimes go even thinner.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

I've been going about .075"-.080" with my little mahogany guitars, .070"-.075" for the sides.

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

I go about .090 on backs for OO/OM size and a little thinner say .080 for OO/parlour. Sides usually .080, very figured, maybe a little less. These are building thicknesses and will probably go down 5 thou or so with final scaping and sanding. I've never had a guitar collapse so I'm thinking that I may reduce these a little in the future as I think there is a natural tendency to build too heavy. I want it just on the edge!


Colin

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I take everything down to basically the same as John How, thin.

Mike

I am like John How
sides .075 to .080 backs .100
john hall
blues creek guitars