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Redwood top
Who's built a dread with a Redwood top? Any advice? The customer requested Redwood and wants "lots of low end". He's a light strummer/finger picker. I've had this set for 4 or 5 years. It's beautiful and I'm glad that I'm finally going to build a guitar with it. Back and sides will be Rosewood.
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The body shape will have the most influence on producing that big bass. My all laminate dread blows my all solid OM out of the water when it comes to volume and bass.
Keep the bracing light to enhance this even more
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The last dred I built is Mahogany with a redwood top. Usually when people talk about bass boom they talk about scalloped bracing. If I was going for 'lots of low end' I'd probably consider doing scalloped bracing and don't tuck in the X-Brace ends in the lower bout. I would also give the top a bit more deflection.
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Thanks. I've built a number of dreads but have never used Redwood for anything. I've repaired Redwood guitars by several makers but never a dread.
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Ive never made a dreadnaught with it but I used it quite a bit out when I was out west where it was cheap. I made a few guitars, a mando and a miniature bass. Construction wise its actually a lot more dimensionally stable than any other softwood I know of with respect to humidity. I still have an acoustic arch top with an all redwood body I made out in AZ. I moved to the swamps of VA and the maple neck is a mess now but the body held up great
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Redwood is indeed great for humidity tolerance. But it is brittle, so even though the dimensional shrinkage is not much, it will still crack if braced in high humidity and then dried out. But if you brace dry, it will be more or less humidity-proof. |
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Never can tell for sure about stability unless you stockpile neck blanks in a non-humidity controlled room and check them with a straightedge in winter and summer to see which ones stay straight. |
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