<div><div>Maybe Jim should clarify which crown he is referring to. I didn't think he was referring to removing crown in the rim such that the bass end would not have to be forced down once the treble end was clamped. </div><div><br/></div><div>David Love</div><div><a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com">www.davidlovepianos.com</a></div><div>415.407.8320</div><div><br/></div></div><br><br>Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:<br><br>On 11/30/2012 1:11 PM, Terry Farrell wrote:<br><br>> Maybe a good way to decide would be to build your soundboard and lay<br>> it in there on the rim - see how it mates to the rim. If the rim<br>> crown is pushing up the ends and you have to sit on the darn thing to<br>> bring it down to the rim, you might want to consider removing the<br>> crown. If, on the other hand, the original crown on the rim enhances<br>> good mating of the soundboard to the rim, for sure leave it.<br><br>Maybe I've lived a sheltered life, but I've never put in a board that <br>didn't take a WHOLE LOT of forcing down to the rim in the base side tail <br>and treble front. I've always found it entertaining and sort of sad when <br>people (not you) go to great verbal lengths to justify how some piddly <br>little contour modification to the rim would insure a stress free panel <br>installation, usually with a CC soundboard with a panel that is already <br>half crushed just by putting it together.<br><br>As to the "most important crown in the soundboard", it's physically <br>impossible to avoid crown along the long bridge if there is crown along <br>the ribs, as the perimeter is pressed and glued to a plane or nearly <br>plane rim.<br><br>Ron N<br>