[Paul Philco322]

Well we have a bit of a mess here.............Fred Taylor did a stunning job on my cabinet, I inspected it when he sent it back and it was perfect in every way. I stored it away till I had a chance to reassemble, a pal in my club helped with the recap and repair. 

So when I went to put it together I noticed two thin cracks on the top part of the case, why?
Only thing I can think of is that I had this in a cold corner of my cellar. We had endured 10 days of below 20 degree weather around new years, some days 3 degrees was the high. So I am thinking the extreme cold may have led to an uneven chilling of the wood lead the thin top section to contract in a way different than the rest of the case and crack. 

To make it even better the set will not play and when we had it out of the case it was playing fine, I think it may be a bandswitch issue as when turned back and forth some static kicks in, so a real fun time with this one. Any thoughts on the case? I think we can wrestle the technical issue down. 

Take a gander...........

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92577012@N...3822556645

Thanks. 

Paul