<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I suppose  it coulda been droped at some point. Still... looks like a stress crack to me. As far as restringing etc... I think you have to flip it upside down with action removed and take off the bottom covering. That would expose the whole soundboard area. <p>RicB <p>Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I would tend to agree Del, and seeing the inside of this crack is even more enlightening. Here is a shot of the plate tho...as best I could manage this time around. </blockquote> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">I was wrong about it being cross-strung, though. It's very much flat-strung. Makes the crack a bit mysterious. Way less torsional stress than I envisioned. What is pulling it apart? Odd design.</font></font></div> <div dir=ltr> </div> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">One last question -- is there an obvious method of removing the strung back assembly? In other words, how would one go about repairing a split treble bridge? Assuming one could see that it was split. Or, how would one go about restringing the thing?</font></font></div> <div dir=ltr> </div> <div dir=ltr><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">Del</font></font></div> </blockquote> <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>UiB, Bergen, Norway <br><A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <br><A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <br>  </body> </html>