Hard Lessons about Soft Glue

A few days ago, I wrote about the "We Will Not Be Silent" take down CBG.

Since then, I've had some problems with it. First, the carry through structure just pulled apart under the tuners... Yikes. Apparently, the heat and humidity here was just too much for the traditional hide glue I used to put it together. That particular joint had a fair amount of stress on it from the string tension.

So I took it all apart and re-glued that joint with Elmer's white glue. White glue makes a harder, more permanent join - that's exactly why hide glue is preferred - so you can take it apart for repairs later. But a permanent join is OK here - there's really no reason it should ever need to be taken apart.

Put is all back together and it's been playing nicely, but...

Now the fingerboard is separating. Yikes. The fingerboard actually supports the string tension just above the zero fret on this one... and the strings have been sliding the fingerboard toward the box.

Looks like theres another disassembly/reassembly in my near future, lol.