Those have to be very well built in order to keep the shape for reasonable time because the amount of tension is huge...
Any mismanagement also (like a misplaced case in the sunlight or a hot car) would destroy them
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Agreed.
It warped during a tour in Europe. I suspect the it got put somewhere it didn't like.
One sunray and we are in trouble.
I found my guitar with the bridge unglued because at 10am in the morning a pervert sunray entered through a window in an odd degree and sitted for the hour just on the belly of the case where the bridge is.
So a couple of days in that exact spot and when I went to use it, bridge was gone.
And I use hide glue for everything. It's waaay better for sound and lightness so also it is more sensitive to heat than anything else.
That's unfortunate, but sounds about right.