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Looks wonderful John. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I for one would love to hear the results!

Great idea.

Looking quite superb sir! I can't wait to see and hopefully hear the final result.

Jim, Brian Burns told me that when taping a back on it was fairly close to the result of gluing on the back, well, at least it only raised the back mode by about 5%. So it seems to work for a temporary attachment so the guitar can be opened and the bracing adjusted. In any case, it would be nice to ...

So after thinking about this for quite some time, it seems that an approach to the falcate type soundboard that the braces could be attached with the CF tow underneath and glued to the rim. According to Brian Burns, the back can be temporarily stuck on with binding tape with a good approximation to ...

Beautiful work. So how did the guitar turn out in the end?

Michael

Thanks Craig! So, if the mass of the jig was the weight of a set of sides, liners, neck and tail block, plus the additional side weight (approx 400 g as in side mass loading) it is possible to get something approaching the effect of gluing a plate to a set of sides? I will make an attempt and see ho...

Another quick question. If a free plate is held in a fixture where the edges are constrained, is there any correlation to what the top does once it has been installed on the guitar itself? And does anyone think that it would be possible to build a jig that mimics the internal sound chamber but allow...

Has anyone tried to temporarily attach the top and back plate to test coupling so that it will be easy to affect changes rather than make those changes through the sound hole?