constructordeguitarras -> Replacing a harmonic bar--advice sought (Sep. 12 2017 2:24:43)
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I have a good friend who made a guitar years ago. I recently showed him how to french polish it properly and we discovered that the lower harmonic bar had warped and made the top concave, something I've never seen before. The bar is much smaller in cross section than usual. In addition, my friend did that thing where the bar is hollowed out near the ends to allow fan braces to extend into the upper bout, which weakened it. While we were working on the finish, I vacuumed out the inside and we heard a loud crack, which was apparently one end of the harmonic bar--which was held on by a little short grain--popping off. I proposed gluing in an additional lower harmonic bar adjacent to the first to push it back into the proper shape. We did that but within a day the ends of both bars popped off. That warped bar is just too strongly holding its wrong shape. So now I propose to route the back binding off, remove the back, and remove and replace the lower harmonic bar(s). Does anyone have experience doing this sort of thing? Any advice?
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