>Which brings up my next question: To increase >stiffness, why not "beef up" the ribs, instead of >shortening them with cutoffs and such ? That's done, and it can make a nice board when you want to use the original rib locations. Rib crowning, with tighter radii in the treble, and a little deeper profile are easy enough to add with little trouble. A bass cutoff and a belly rail brace help enough at they should always be considered, in my opinion. Ron N
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