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Thanks for all of the tips everybody. I went and got 6 more strips of the curly maple , applied all the things as posted shaved the thickness down on my belt sander to around .080" and finished reducing with the scraper to .070" and they turned out really nice. Very pleased. Also I just re...

What type of paper did you use and what thickness did you shave your ribs to.

This is my 1st violin build and the c/bouts are certainly prone to crack or split even by going slow. My ribs are soft curly maple at about 1-8mm. - 2.00mm. in thickness. I use a 1" diameter ceramic curling iron, range 400 F. When using super soft 2 what process did you follow when applying thi...