Thank you, Sequoia. I did look at a picture of your tenor with fan braces some distance off of that cross brace, and I looked at the stewmac template you mentioned in the post under the hood. Interesting that the LMI plan that I am using calls for the fan braces to be tight up against that cross brace. Is it common practice to do this one way or the other? I would go against the plan if I felt that I was on solid ground. I also see that there are three horizontal braces on the stewmac plan. The LMI plan calls for two. Don't have enough experience to know what all that means.