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Steven Hornback
 Post subject: bracing red spruce top
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I'm ready to brace a red spruce top and i was using red spruce bracewood, but i messed up the X brace and all I have to use now is sitka bracewood. Would it be the wrong thing to do if I used the sitka on a red spruce top?

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Steven Hornback wrote:
I'm ready to brace a red spruce top and i was using red spruce bracewood, but i messed up the X brace and all I have to use now is sitka bracewood. Would it be the wrong thing to do if I used the sitka on a red spruce top?

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You're fine... forge on.

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Steven Hornback wrote:
I'm ready to brace a red spruce top and i was using red spruce bracewood, but i messed up the X brace and all I have to use now is sitka bracewood. Would it be the wrong thing to do if I used the sitka on a red spruce top?

Thanks, Steve


That's what was used on the 30's Martins(source-John Arnold) and they don't have too bad a reputation. The guitar I'm building has a red spruce top and sitka braces.

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Mark Groza
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i'm getting ready to do a sitka top with red spruce braces,the opposite of yours.I think we both will be ok.Mark
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