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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on February 20, 2011 at 7:37am

I would just shellac or varnish the interior. Some years ago I did a side by side test with removed and varnished and thought the difference if any wasn't worth the hassle removing the lining. Most of the sound projected is the soundboard in any case.

Don

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Permalink Reply by J Cramer on February 20, 2011 at 7:51am

Thanks, Don.  

 

I'll give shellac a shot on this one.

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on February 20, 2011 at 1:51pm

I think removing the paper from the underside of the lid makes the most difference, I have made them and removed it later and it did sound better. Sides and bottom, I don't know, I remove it if its loose, but glued on is to much trouble, Don is right.

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Permalink Reply by J Cramer on February 20, 2011 at 3:20pm

This one only has paper on the underside the lid and it is very tightly glued all the way around.  No design on the top of the box, but the paper graphic pretty nice looking.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Doug on February 21, 2011 at 5:39am

I have flipped the lid on a few that had nice graphics on the underside.

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Permalink Reply by J Cramer on February 21, 2011 at 9:05am

That's an interesting idea.

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