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Yeah, I liked that as well!! I guess that even Bouchet could make a 'stupid mistake' on occasion!

It's a very interesting book- we should try to put together a 'group effort' of bilingual folks (and semi-bilingual , in my case) to produce an 'unofficial English translation' of the 'Cahier' notes. The drawings tell a lot, but the written notes are very interesting and informative. It takes a while to get used to his handwriting, the Euro way of writing 1's and 7's, etc. but it's worth it. Too bad the book is so $$ to buy (about $70 Cdn with shipping from Fr.)

Cheers
John

I have used gobars on three guitars to glue on the bridge. The bridge has to fit nicely to the top in a dry fit. And you need cauls on both the back and top with adjustable columns ( for me small turnbuckles). Then seat the guitar back in your sanding dish. And your ready to go. I position the bridge and then use yellow glue to glue tiny blocks to keep the bridge in position. In half a minute, your hot hide glue is on and you're done. Incidentally, in my assembly room ( just my fancy name for a small untidy humidity controlled room ) I use the ceiling for the top of my go bar deck. Great visibility. Using birch go bars!

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You mean a translation of the Bouchet Cahier?
Cyril PINEAU posted a few lines from the photo captions/notes (still in the Building forum)
http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=20844&hilit=+translation
I sent him a PM, but he hasn't been around the OLF for a year or so.
If there's anything I missed, please let me know.
(It's the hand-written stuff that's most interesting to me, and (AFAIK) scanning and OCR + machine translation isn't 'there' yet.)
Thanks
John