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Old 01-06-2009, 10:59 PM
Sugar Bear Sugar Bear is offline
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Take a good look at it, and if the highest point of the top is not more than 3/16 inch above the top edge of the sides, don't worry about it.

If it bothers you too much, you could go to a lighter gauge of strings.

If it's more than 3/16 inch, it needs help. Without teaching a class, you could clamp the top to flatten it and install a bigger bridge plate.

But the whole thing is pretty complex, there are a number of considerations to deciding exactly how to proceed in a given case, so if you're a beginner at this sort of thing, you should probably have a luthier do it.

It's tough working through the sound hole, and the alternative is removing the back. And of course, the bridge will have to come off. And so on...

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