Bill Sheehan
Well-known member
I know there have been plenty of threads about how to remedy a loose brace, but my question is a little more general...
I noticed a couple of days ago, on an older pre-owned tenor Fluke that I purchased via the Reverb website not long ago, that the sound board brace running "east-to-west", in the area just "south" of the sound hole (between the sound hole and the bridge), has fallen slightly away from the sound board on one end, very near the place where the sound board joins the side. I can reach up under the sound board and kind of wiggle the brace with my finger at that location, although it seems to be sturdy along the rest of its length. I'm not seeing any kind of "dipping" in the soundboard, and the uke plays and sounds fine. Nor does the brace issue seem to be causing any kind of buzzing or rattling.
So, I'm wondering, have you ever discovered a loose brace and decided to just leave it be?
I noticed a couple of days ago, on an older pre-owned tenor Fluke that I purchased via the Reverb website not long ago, that the sound board brace running "east-to-west", in the area just "south" of the sound hole (between the sound hole and the bridge), has fallen slightly away from the sound board on one end, very near the place where the sound board joins the side. I can reach up under the sound board and kind of wiggle the brace with my finger at that location, although it seems to be sturdy along the rest of its length. I'm not seeing any kind of "dipping" in the soundboard, and the uke plays and sounds fine. Nor does the brace issue seem to be causing any kind of buzzing or rattling.
So, I'm wondering, have you ever discovered a loose brace and decided to just leave it be?