After resawing the blanks for back, top and sides are about 5mm thick which is ways too much to build a fine instrument. To make them thinner I use my shop made thickness sander which is basically a table which
Resawing
I recently started building two Steel String Guitars. To get the sides and backs I needed, I cut pieces of about 5mm thickness off a thicker board. This is done on the bandsaw which is equipped with a fence to