[CAUT] was caf now seasonal sb failure

[Greg Newell]

I just had a grand I had in to install a new pin 
block only to find that once I pulled the plate 
the soundboard popped out cleanly all the way 
around it's perimeter. WOW!! All the bridge caps fell off too! Quite strange.

Greg Newell



At 02:33 PM 3/1/2006, you wrote:

>>Greg, Ron, and other Soundboard Experts,
>>       If you do find a soundboard to rim crack with chunks of aging excess
>>glue collar flaking away, and you don't want to rebuild it what then?  Will
>>thin CA glue squirted into the crack do anything to restore tone?
>>-Mike Jorgensen
>
>Beats me, Mike, but I wouldn't. In thirty years 
>I've seen a total of three instances (that I 
>recall) of loose soundboard panel to rim joints 
>causing tonal problems, all in verticals, and troweled in Titebond to fix them.
>
>Ron N
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