Paul, Having built several western red tops I can at least comment. For your renaissance Dieff varying from 1.4mm to 1.8mm across the board should work. If it is properly dried it is hard enough to support those thicknesses. You must, however, have VERY sharp scrapers and mind the grain.
Rob Dorsey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Daverman Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Does anyone have experience using western red cedar for the lute sound board? (I'm building a 10-cs Ren. Dieffopruchar.) I'm guessing it would need to be thicker than a spruce top. However, I'm not sure how much thicker I should expect it to be. Thanks, Paul -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
