brace material for top?
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Tim Benware
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Re: brace material for top?
Sometimes you just don't wanna fool with Mother Nature!
I've "Ben-Had" again!
Tim Benware
Creedmoor, NC
Tim Benware
Creedmoor, NC
Re: brace material for top?
Spruce.
A cedar top needs to be thicker than a spruce top. Cedar bracing needs to be thicker as well. Add it up and you have a heavier soundboard. Use spruce and you can shave a bit of weight. I only used cedar on that "all cedar" experimental guitar that I still need to finish.
A cedar top needs to be thicker than a spruce top. Cedar bracing needs to be thicker as well. Add it up and you have a heavier soundboard. Use spruce and you can shave a bit of weight. I only used cedar on that "all cedar" experimental guitar that I still need to finish.