to glue or not to glue - healed top crack
Last week I bought a Takamine F005 small bodied guitar for cheap. Nice little guitar with a slotted headstock and nice tobacco s/b finish. Cool looking, played and sounded good and somewhat uncommon, so I bought it even though it had a problem.
It had a center seam crack thru the wood (as seen using a flashlight in a dark room) in the top from the bridge down to the edge. The top also had bumps along the grain lines, it was DRY! Poor thing.
So after 4 days of humidification in the case, everything is coming around. The crack has completely closed. Sweet!
Question, do I still need to glue this crack or if I keep it well loved is it ok to leave the guitar as is? I can live with the remaining finish crack.
Any advice would be helpful as I have never had a crack in one of my guitars before.
thanks,
Jarrett
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