Bellied up top

[PeterG]

Also shows how important it is to but a block under the bridge plate when drilling!

[lamanoditrento]

Wow! Live streaming internally. Hats off to your ingenuity I would never have thought to do that

[limehills]

Thought I'd post a long overdue update! replacing the tone bars actually fixed the issue quite well. It decreased the bellying enough to make the guitar structurally sound. Unfortunately I cracked the top while taking the bridge plate off.... so a re-top is needed now anyway.

Any bridge plate removal techniques would be greatly appreciated, so I don't repeat history!

[Joshua]

Frank Ford's site could be helpful.