Distended sides

[thefishinmusician]

Don't often see any good solutions to this common problem....What is your favorite approach to this nagging problem ?...I'm facing one that is the thickness of the side wood itself , and won't be teased back in line...

[Ned Knepp]

What are you working on?  A guitar, mandolin, other?

[Kerry Krishna]

 I am sorry, but I say the same thing again and again and again. We need pictures to tell us what you are asking about Fishin! I have no clue WHAT this post is about... 

[onewent]

If you're talking side loose from back, I made these after seeing them on Frank's .com site.  They come in handy..Tom

[thefishinmusician]

That's it , pretty much,,,,,I did this for an old mandolin once,,,A complete torture rack , including some adjustable rods to push out from the inside , where needed...

[thefishinmusician]

The back was off on the mandolin...Not so on the Royal Crest arch top I'm working on...

[Ned Knepp]

  The last one I did anything like this, Fishin, was on an "A" style mandolin which was loose at the tail block and the top edge. The top side was warped out on the top edge but still glued in place on the bottom edge.

  I have found that half the battle is holding the instrument securely. The L brackets that Frank made are much better than the wooden blocks I made and next time I run into this I think I will see about making some like his.  I used a cork lined cauld cut to the final curvature of the side and extending well beyond either side of the twisted section. With this I spent a couple of days dampening the edge that was warped and used the screws in the blocks to gradually move the side back into place. Once it was there, I let it dry then removed the cauld long enough to glue up the repair and clamp again. That was 7 years ago and the repair is still good today. 

[thefishinmusician]

I'll try to post a pic of the " Torture rack "....It was just like his...It took about 3 months , but made it back...

[onewent]

I use the jigs (cut on band saw from aluminum stock) on opposite sides of each other to support the guitar, and have a piece of foam insulation under the guitar to hold it initially.  I get the curved caul just low enough so that I can get the glue in with a spatula and clamp up w/o removing the jigs, using spool and small ratchet clamps. This photo shows regluing an entire top. Tom