Hi everyone,
Background - building 2 guitars - classical, one walnut and the other maple.
The other day I feared thinning my maple sides too thin. Today I successfully thinned my walnut sides.
I was thinning the back pieces using the Safe-T-planer. I think I was set too thin to start with, but then I also think my pieces were slightly cupped. Eitherway - I have a couple spots on my back pieces, on both, that go down to about .04 thickness. Actually they are strips of thinness on the out edges of the lower bout area, about 2" wide. The rest of the back is about .07 or .08". Another bad thing is that they are not joined yet. But I can overcome that part easily.
My fix for the low spots is to place veneer on that area. So I will sand and plane till my back pieces are a pretty common thickness after joining. Then I will plane a little more on the outer part of the lower bout and place a strip of veneer.
ugh.... I am working on another guitar at the same time, so I can still progress, should I order or get new back pieces and start this part over, so my guitars can be "perfect" ??
I have been using this icon a lot lately.
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