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Originally Posted by redir
Are all the brace ends treated that way? It seems like they had the idea that dripping epoxy on the brace end will help keep it tacked down in defense of impact or something. IDK I'm just thinking out loud as to why that would be done. I have seen guitars with cloth patches at brace ends for what I presume to be that very reason.
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It is a common practice in classical guitar construction to pit a drop of wood glue on the ends of the fan braces. I suspect on this guitar they attempted to do the same with epoxy.