[fidel1ty]

For you builders out there...

Has anyone tried carbon fiber hooks, connecting the neck to the bridgeplate and then plate to tailblock. These "hooks" would tolerate stress, like a bridge under weight and relieve soundboard tension. I was thinking a carbon fiber bridge plate and possibly carbon fiber at the base of the neck and top of tailblock.

We can think of these 3 entities as the heart of the guitar, or like a frame of a car, and could build the body around it with much less tension that causes bridge lift, belly bulge, dumpling etc.

I suspect carbon fiber may be a good option for this because if its rigidity and ability to tolerate the stress of string tension, as opposed to conveying that stress to a thin soundboard.

180 lbs of pressure from string tension on a soundboard, year after year, sounds like an awful lot.

Just a wild thought.