Continuity - soundboard

[Wallace Scherer]

Thanks, Jim, that's what I was trying to say in my post on fixing cracks 
in soundboards!

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On Sat, 5 May 2001 JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:
> I agree. 
>   There are situations which call for a shim for other than cosmetic reasons 
> and one of those is what I will call 'continuity of surface'. A board with 
> numerous cracks in it will not be as efficient at its job as an 'amducer' 
> (amplifier/transducer) as a board with a solid surface/body sans cracks. It 
> seems to me that a board with numerous cracks would lose some of its power by 
> only the ribs transferring the vibrations from panel to panel without help 
> from the panels having solid connections to all the other panels otherwise.
>  Said another way a board with 'continuity of surface' will perform better 
> than one without.
> My view.
> Jim Bryant (FL)
>