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Double Bass Question about tailpiece carving

I´m carving a conpensated tailpiece for my 4/4 suraba bass.
I´d prefer it to be light.
But a guitar maker friend of mine give me some good and dry dense indian rosewood... This is really heavy stuff about 1.06 :rollno:

In order to keep the weight to the minimum how thin would you go performin this task?
The section where the strings get attached is about 9 mm thick
I wonder if it would be ok hollow all the back of the tailpiece a bit more.
Thanks in advance