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Originally Posted by skydawg
OK, now back to the original question. The fretboard on an acoustic could be reliced w/o structural concerns. As well as the back of the neck and the headstock.
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Mmmm, I guess they could. At any rate, the original question was, Why aren't acoustic guitars being reliced? And the answer is, evidently some are, going by that video.
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Originally Posted by skydawg
Limiting the relicing of the body to the finish is certainly conceivable.
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Conceivable, yes. Doable? I don't know. Look at that vid, looks to me that the guy is thermal cycling the top, evidently to get the finish to craze. Can he assure the guitar's owner that he hasn't compromised the bond of the glued top braces with that treatment? Tops are pretty thin, well under 0.25" thick. It wouldn't take much for the heat / cold to transfer to the glue joints...
I'm with John, and am also an avowed glue sniffin'/ I mean CORK sniffin' wood obsessed cue stick gee tar snob
I'm gonna relic my Collings the old-fashioned way, by the campfire with a bunch of other pickers who possibly ain't quite one hundred percent sober
