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Originally Posted by Bruce Sexauer
It may be that not all eras of Martin treat the X join the same, but the one I have here in the shop has no meaningful joint at all, the braces appear to have been notched before they knew each other! The cloth can only be to hide the fact that they don't join structurally at all.
I do think the bridge plate is a repair job. This guitar did fail catastrophically. |
Geez, I hope so. Looks like a pre-schooler glued that bridge plate. LOL.