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Ron:
Last year I repaired a Guild GAD 50 that had soundboard damage starting from the tailblock ending with cracks that ran up to the bridge. It cam out well, I used tightbond to reglue the bracing, and cracked tailblock, then refinished (3 attempts to match the sunburst encouraged me to sand and goto a natural finish w/ nitro lacquer)
Anyway, I was gone for a week and the temps droped to ) and below, the hosue dried out with the humidifier out of water and the Guild developed 2 old cracks to reopen from the old tailblock crack nearly to the bridge. you can run a piece of paper in the middle of the cracks. This happened to another guitar a couple of years ago and I made a dish out of tin foil and placed it inside the guitar with a soaked sponge in the pan. That ime it worked, closing the crack. I then use CA to seal the crack, added cleats, touched up the cracks with nitro and it was great. This time the cracks won't close after 2 days with the wet sponge.
Any thoughts? Jerry Ryan
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