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I just peel off anything that looks like it will come loose, and leave the rest of it.
I can barely hear the edit in Strawberry Fields Forever, so I guess I'll be fine with leaving the paper on!
If you want the paper off, sand it with rough paper for about 20 seconds. Then wet it and scrape it off with a razor blade. Comes right off. Start to finish, you'll be done in less than five minutes.
Well I take it off. To my mind it is sound absorbing, so I remove it.....carefully.
The inside label if removed carefully & intact can be kept as a spare label for a box with a damaged label on the lid
I never peel off any paper labels inside or out except where I need to glue in neck mounts. If I don't like the looks or the sound of a box---I don't get it!
I like to take it off if I can w/o too much trouble. I always will take out any of the velvet like stuff no matter what a pain it is. Hard surfaces are good, fuzzy ones, no thanks.
Just get a blow drier or heat gun much easier just heat it and the paper will come straight off. Anything that impacts the resonance of the soundboard is gone on my builds.
I don't remove it, I've not really noticed the difference in sound between it being there and not.
Well I take it off
If you want to improve tone - you could try these steps. This is what I've done:
1. strip the paper off as mentioned with sandpaper- water and then scrape off.
2. thin the top so it vibrates more freely using a sander
3.I like to apply some salt water to really dry out the wood. Not sure what it does, but it seems to open the wood top up.
4. Lastly, that is a lot of work. If you are amplifying your guitar, ignore steps 1-4 and go directly to cranking the amp up to 10 and jamming out!
if glueing it is best to remove the paper otherwise it could weaken the bond, but should hardly affect the sound i leave the paper on the outsides (-:
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