Christoph

But has the book matching any advantage besides the grain, which is just visual I suppose. And is it ok to use one solid piece or does the wood deform more then?

I want to build a replica of a guitar used by the Japanese artist Mana of the band Moi dix Mois. Some pictures can be found here: ESP Guitars Japan - Mana I've already built one of those, but since it was my first guitar, I made som compromises (like using just one piece of wood). It is written there, that the original guitar has a top of hard maple and a back of alder. I suppose that means, that there are two layers of wood glued together. My question is now, how thick are the layers supposed to be? And how thick is the whole body supposed to be, to mount an original Floyd-Rose tremolo in there? The other thing is, that I heard about bookmatching once. I think it means cutting a piece wood in two layers and folding it up like a book. Then glueing the pieces together at the small side. I hope you understand. However, is this just for optical reasons? Does it change the sound? Does it prohibit the wood from changing shape? So does it make sense to do that with both layers of the body or can i just use two planks and glue them together. Thanks for your answers, Christoph P.S.: If you want to see my previous work, click here.