Well.... it IS felt stiped off. I actually cleaned up this thing and roughed it up to 435 to just get a basic idea of the sound. Neat bass considering its condition.. tho the treble up over got pretty hollow. As Ed pointed out the panel is in remarkable shape really... a 4 cracks and no sign of compression ridges... which (as he also pointed out) makes one wonder just how much compression there was. Ribs however being so few and what they were might goe a ways towards explaining this. That said I am just guessing about the origional crowning. Tho I'm assuming there was crown designed into the thing from the get go... and if thats the case... then why the thin and wide ribs unless they were meant to be easily <<bent>> ? Cheers RicB Terry the F writes : I can't imagine that could ever be bad, except I wonder about all the sympathetic ringing that is bound to occur..... Terry Farrell
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