William Reynolds Anthropocene Strung Instruments
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I gotta upgrade myself to Ding status
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What level member is paid up to see the link?
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I’d say since they both sound great you’re set. The room filling voice could be so many factors, but structured sides really do push the guitar like a hotrod. I’d recommend not comparing the two as on is a peach and other an apple, which are both great tasting. Build another of each the same way you did top etc but swap the sides to experiment and then you’ll be able to compare structured vs traditional on same design. But I will include the fact that the math Gore teaches and Giuliano has in their books is so you can build tops with different pieces of wood and expect similar results so when this is applied to two guitars,, one with structured sides and one with traditional built identical besides the sides,, then the comparison can be reliable determining just how much structured sides enhance the projection and voice.
Post some pics, I’m interested in your design.
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I’m running structured sides for all my builds. Though I’m debating doing a typical side build for other reasons soon regarding my neck joint at cutaway.
The way I understand the structured sides is that the vibrations in sound board are more likely to stay in sound board like waves in a concrete swimming pool do vs an above ground vinyl pool has the sides moving when the waves hit the sides. And this the waves in the pool dissipate faster, so less sustain.
Another benefit described in Trevor Gores book is the extra mass of structured sides help move the anti-node closer to perimeter of soundboard and increase the active area of the middle. More tone, more sound(I’m not going to explain this as well as I understand it).
A snare drum wouldn’t sound good with .09” sides,, and I believe a guitar is quite the same mechanism. So I’m just running them since I saw Jeremy Clark doing it at 52 instrument co.
As far as the sides allowing for the top to be thinner I wouldn’t put much more thought into that coalition. The bracing would make up for the difference in thicknesses. From what I learned studying Gore is the intention of all this math is consistent sounding guitars of exceptional harmonic value, so if you built the exact same guitar again with correct target thickness the sound would be more different than the difference of how two or ten guitars built exactly the same with same math rendering different top thicknesses though producing same sound. I hope I don’t sound like a complete dimbass, haha, and I’m not checking typos on this novel I wrote, so I apologize now for grammatical mistakes or spelling.
