Take a pick. The possibilities are endless. And the only limit being your own imagination.
But with Limba type body wood I would go for something with brightness to it. Little snap....like maple, wenge, walnut......just do seach on tonewood on the site and read up for evening or two.....you will see much info coming up and you simply make pick based on what others say, do, whatever makes good sense to you, and what types of wood are available to you.
Using just 1/8" of top will have little effect on tone. Going for two 1/4" tops/backs will defintely have some effect on tone. This is not necessarily a bad thing. With top/back you can color (read: advance) the tonal properties of your body. Off set some of the warmth of Limba for instance.
If you pick top/back wood for cosmetic reasons......then you might wanna go for thinner top.
What type of guitar are we talking about....2" body wood???....I hear LP copy????
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thANKS for the reply.
im actrualy not going LP copy. Im doing a copy of steve via body, or joe satriani's. Damn i just cant make up my mind yet lolz! i might go with Steve via body and just kinda customize it a bit, so basically a soloist body as warmoth calls it. Im not exactly sure how thick those are but i wanted to go 2" cuase most people said that was standard and i wanted to go big so if i need i can plane it down.
Im still in the process of picking out hardware and such so nothing is final. Im still in the middle of reading a guitar building book and i wanna finish it before i make any final body desicions...I thought maple would probly be a good wood to go with since its bight to counter the wrmth of korina slightly, but i want the sustain of korina, they said its one of the best besides brazilian rosewood. I just cant find any info of the tone of myrtlewood.