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@boo step one... find some tight pants/shorts to put on... step two.... muscles. 🙂

Posted by: @bpower find some tight pants/shorts to put on... @bpower I dare not show you. This is a family forum. 😆

@boo Another thought. When I first started making in the 1980s I used to buy from a firm in Pennsylvania US who built a back bow in on purpose to counter string pressure. They had a jig for gluing up ...

Posted by: @rocknroller912 They had a jig for gluing up with a curve. @rocknroller912 How interesting. Thanks for all of this info and input. 👍

@boo People have had some strange ideas on building in the past. Thank goodness for modern technology. I would be interested if you have one with a back bow.

@koendb The inside looks very clean which is impressive. Be careful when you are trimming the soundboard to the sides it can split very easily in the waist area due to splitting along the grain.

Beautiful work @koendb Very clean work. ✊

Posted by: @boo How would you go about doing the opposite thing, do you think? If the neck had a back bow? How about removing the frets and then stinging the guitar for a while, under high tension i...

@koendb OK then good luck. I agree totally with Darren the instrument will take some time to settle down before it plays well. Are you planning to finish the neck and sound box before they are fixed t...

@koenbe, you are clearly on a roll! I bet you’re not getting much real work done! Great job and I’m sure you’ll love it when you get to string it up. Just in case it doesn’t knock your socks off from ...

@koendb beautiful work. Well done. 🙂

@boo You can try the back bow repair method first and let us all know how it goes. ps have you got your spray painting demo ready for @tv101 when we do the video thing.

@bpower Well done I’m glad it worked out for you

Update on the crack.... I have used epoxy and I think that it worked absolutely fantastic. Can not see that there was ever an issue and seems perfectly strong. I am confident in it so now I can start...

Posted by: @markbailey FYI: Fretwire is available with different tang widths - so it fits tighter or looser in the slot to allow for both forward and back bow situations like this. We used to call it...

FYI: Fretwire is available with different tang widths - so it fits tighter or looser in the slot to allow for both forward and back bow situations like this. We used to call it 'repair wire' and it wa...

Posted by: @tv101 I had visions of you doing some live skin spray painting or something @tv101 Well, there is such a thing called airbrush tattooing.

Posted by: @boo How dare you. What are you insinuating I had visions of you doing some live skin spray painting or something ... 🤣 🤣

@tv101 How dare you. What are you insinuating? 😆