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brace material for top?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:25 pm
by Paul C
If making a cedar top do you generally use cedar for all the braces also?
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:19 pm
by Tim Benware
I don't, someone may.
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:00 pm
by Dave Bagwill
There's not a hard and fast rule, though I'd go along with Tim on this; I'd stick with spruce most likely.
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:26 am
by Paul C
Thanks guys for input
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:31 am
by ken cierp
Spruce --
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:19 pm
by Kevin in California
unless you are Tony making an all cedar guitar, then you use....well,.....cedar!
Kevin
Re: brace material for top?
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:10 pm
by ken cierp
The real world size/strength/ratio is why Spruce is the brace wood of choice – in other words to use a brace made of Cedar that is equal in tension resistance as a Spruce brace it will be larger and most importantly heavier – not good. Can you use Cedar sure – but all the experimentation has been done for us – Spruce works very well!