To regraduate or not...

[Arnold Schnitzer]

Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker

When I regraduated my own bass, I worked neatly right up to the bar, and in fact now you can see the bar and the original glue line raised above the level of the plate.

Matthew, keep an eye on the top in this area. I'm afraid you may have inadvertently created a fault line which could cause a crack. This is the same reason why patch edges should not be finished parallel with the grain.