Acoustic Guitar Construction

My plans are to make the dimensions of the body bigger (an extra 2 cms on the entire outline) and give it a depth of about 16 cms. I want to make the top touch the through-neck only in the place where the bridge pieces have to come and remove a layer of about .5 -1.0 cms between that point and the p...

I am, more or less, in the planning stages of a scratch build of an acoustic 5 string bass guitar with a neck-through design based on an electric 5 string I built in the past. I do know some basics about building a guitar but am new to the acoustic part of it. The things I need a lot of information ...

Maybe I just misunderstood it?

Looking at the pictures from Kenneth Micheal I see that small parts of the sides are sacrificed to install the bracing. That looks as a real no no to me. In the end result you'll have these nice dark sides and at certain points there are light pieces of wood showing. Of course that can be remedied b...