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Old 12-31-2020, 11:48 AM
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This particular set came from an importer many of us have dealt with. It was never kiln dried and was actually a bit green when I got it. I stored it for around 5 years before I built with it, and it seemed absolutely ready to go. There was no sign of cracking at all in working it, nor in finishing it which is when hidden flaws are often discovered. This particular guitar cracked audibly while I was playing it, on a particularly low humidity day. It was an amazingly sharp report!

While I have known for some time why flatsawn plate material is far more likely to crack than quartersawn material, I have rarely seen it actually happen. In 500 or so personally built instruments, I have seen obvious spontaneous cracks in flatsawn material only 5 times, and they are all in Pernambuco. I thought if worth pointing out. I do have a couple more sister sets of this same guitar’s P if anyone wants to try their own luck with it.
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