Things which make life easier.
I just finished some work inside the box - bridge plate refurbishment - and used one of my fave tricks to map everything out. Now, I think I got this idea from Stewmac or Trade Secrets so I'm the messenger here. Basically a couple of small rare earth magnets will do although I use one small 1/8" magnet and a bar magnet from a humbucker.
Place the small magnet on top of the soundboard on top of a piece of paper taped in place and run the bar magnet end or the other small magnet taped to the end of your finger tip around the internal bracing where the bracing meets the soundboard. Pencil in the path of the magnet on the top which will follow the internal magnet- don't press hard with the pencil- we are over soft material here, and you have a map of where the bracing is.
This is very handy for positioning clamps for regluing bracing and making repair veneers, cleats or laminates to go inside the box etc. Works for me and costs next to nothing -sweet.
Oh, and while I'm here - flexible automotive feeler gauges are excellent for poking around loose bracing to find the gaps - just get the tip of a thinnish feeler and run it around the glue joins. Once you find where the blade slides in you can work in a thicker gauge to open the area up to clean up, dampen and inject or work in glue. Not super glue tho. Wish I'd have thought of this stuff.
Place the small magnet on top of the soundboard on top of a piece of paper taped in place and run the bar magnet end or the other small magnet taped to the end of your finger tip around the internal bracing where the bracing meets the soundboard. Pencil in the path of the magnet on the top which will follow the internal magnet- don't press hard with the pencil- we are over soft material here, and you have a map of where the bracing is.
This is very handy for positioning clamps for regluing bracing and making repair veneers, cleats or laminates to go inside the box etc. Works for me and costs next to nothing -sweet.
Oh, and while I'm here - flexible automotive feeler gauges are excellent for poking around loose bracing to find the gaps - just get the tip of a thinnish feeler and run it around the glue joins. Once you find where the blade slides in you can work in a thicker gauge to open the area up to clean up, dampen and inject or work in glue. Not super glue tho. Wish I'd have thought of this stuff.
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