laminated ribs

[Ron Nossaman]

> Dale,
>          Interesting observations! I have one of my own if you will 
> indulge me. If as you pointed out that the RC&S assembly should very 
> easily survive are we loading them enough? My thoughts go along the 
> lines of a superior assembly still acting as an opposing (stronger) 
> spring with the same load as before. I don't have a full grasp of all 
> this stuff yet but it seems to me that if you change one system you have 
> to change them both, no? The opposing string bearing load should be 
> correspondingly more I'd think.
> 
> Greg Newell 

The spring of the board assembly isn't really necessarily 
stiffer, it's just getting it's stiffness from the ribs 
instead of panel compression.
Ron N