Hi all,

I finished my first build with a home-made box a few weeks ago, and have been enjoying it immensely. I made the box from 1/8" spruce for the soundboard and 1/4" spruce for the back and sides, all solid wood.

I recently took the guitar over to a friend's house and unfortunately the gig bag fell over... When I arrived the guitar had lost much of its tone and volume, and was making a strange warbling sound which got worse with light pressure on the soundboard.

I noticed later that the lid was coming away on one of the corners (I had glued the lid down with superglue). I thought this might have been the cause of the problem, so I cut the soundboard off with a knife and re-glued with wood glue, and gave it a full 24 hours under clamps to set.

After re-stringing the guitar, there was an improvement, but the sound is still nowhere near as crisp as before, almost distorted and there is still a slight warbling at times.

I believe this may be a problem with the bracing inside the box, which looks like this:

These are excess strips of spruce which I just glued in place - does this look sufficient to keep the soundboard stiff enough?

I guess the next step will be to try to remove the soundboard again, but I'm thinking this will be a lot tougher with the wood glue - any tips there?

Anyway, any input or advice would be gratefully received.

Cheers all!

Rick