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I was sanding my Madagascar rosewood sides down to thickness (.085") and a split opened up (8" long) or so when I picked one of them up at one end. Would it be best to glue it back together before bending or after bending. Does anyone have any suggestions for glue type if it's before the bend? Thanks

absolutly glue it closed before bending. place the ends backinto perfect alignmnet and wick in thin CA make sure you can maintain perfect alignment to the crack till the CA is fully cured.

Yep, what Michael said.

I had that happen to me one my 2nd gtr. and I wicked in CA and used StewMac binding tape to hold it together, then I laid it on my tablesaw top with a few lbs of weight on it.
Worked great.

Cal

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Ok, thank you. I'm off to wick in the thin CA.

one warnning: If light hardwoods then you will likely get a small amount of end grain infiltration discoloring but not much and not likely to be very noticable. On darker wood you will never see it.

Thanks Michael. Should be ok here with the Mad rose. I'm also about 1 1/4" oversized on my endcuts.

I did almost the same thing Saturday. Except it was EIR and already bent. The split, due to my clumsiness clamping it into my mold afer bending , went from the tail to about the midpoint of the lower bout.

I smeared it real good with hot hide glue, wrapped wax paper around it and clamped it with spring clamps and thin cauls about every 3 inches. I unclamped yesterday and hit it with a scraper. You wouldn't know there was ever a crack.
Walter

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