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Gibson ES175 Bracing Issues...

Hey Looth Group, A customer brought me a Gibson 2015 59' Reissue ES175. In addition to the normal setup/maintenance that needs to be taken care of, the customer complained about an issue with the bracing. The three pictures below are what he was referring to. There's obviously a break in the wood and appears to be some separation in the glue joint. This is located right underneath the edge of the bridge on the bass side.

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Ian Davlin
Current market value of Gibson guitars being in a bubble not withstanding, one of the things that the top I removed had going for it was that the top was glued on with cascamite and came off super eas…
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Gibson Tilt-o-matic / Evertilt bridge

Hi, Hope it's OK to post this kind of query here? I'm working on a '71 Gibson E-B3 bass. The bridge construction features 2 x 1/16" grub screws, which are supposed to seat (as I understand) on a string mute construction. The instrument I'm working on has shed the mute at some point in its history and I'm needing to replace the grub screws and work out a way of mounting that doesn't chew into the top. A couple of questions: a) would any…

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