scalloped braces glued down with grain running vertically instead of horizontally

[greg jacobs]

I made a mistake and glued down braces top and back with grain vertical to the plates instead of horizontally. Should I chisel them up and start over or continue scalloping the braces. The guitar I am building is an OM, sitka spruce top and honduran rosewoodback. Not happy about the mistake. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Greg Jacobs
Austin, TX

[greg jacobs]

Thanks for the input - I am going to leave the problem alone and move on.

Greg Jacobs
Austin, TX

[Russell Vance]

Last time I'm going to chance my arm at a pecuniary punctuation.....and that's my twenty cents worth! Rusty.

[Ned Knepp]

I'm totally confused about what is vertical to what and what that even means. I THINK I know what is what but....

Maybe we should be clearer on what "vertical grain" we are talking about. I grew up in a cabinet shop and learned at an early age that we sand "with the grain" meaning that I must move my sanding block in the direction of the long bundles of fiber that run the length of the board. If you had asked me to make sure the "grain" of the braces is "vertical to the plate", back then, I would have cut the braces across the width of the board, not from the length of it, thus producing "vertical grain" for my braces.

When we look at quarter sawn wood we can see light and dark bands which are a cross section of the growth rings in the tree. Is THIS what we are calling "vertical grain" in this discussion? Is it "grain"?

Ned

[David Houchens]

If you look at the end of your brace, does it look like this lll or like this = ?

[greg jacobs]

David has a good way of looking at the vertical v horizontal grain. I glued the braces down on my t/p that looked like = from the end. It should have been like |||. When you start scalloping the brace that has been laid down with the grain horizontal to the plate, it becomes obvious how the grain is running because of the ease in which the chisel removes the wood. Horizontal grain is much easier for the chisel to cut through than vertical grain. Cutting through the vertical grain is like chiseling end grain.