re: #19 Killgore Trout

Those steel bars only do so much. the real problem is the bridge. think about the torque. It wants to pull up from the back and and sink in the front. That’s why guitars don’t usually last as long as violins.

that’s why Gibson produced the ‘arched top’…a steel bracket behind the bridge to the end of the body to absorb some of the tension off the bridge…Martin followed suit…jus sayin