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You don't have to, but think about it: Assuming you sand the soft top and apply pressure the grain lines will transfer the pressure and will stay stiff where the brace is, so that means on the surface of the top the "shadow" of the brace is at a very different shifted position now! I used a "thick top" for demonstration in the drawing below. The runout direction is from neck to lower bout of the top, not from left to right.Not buying the runout theory, Ralf.
You are very welcome to come up with a better explanation...This doesn't look like a case for reasonable explanations.
Cancer?Strange lighting/shadows, possible reflections, whatever it is folks have been losing sleep over this one for a couple years now, mostly assuming things, "doubting the structural integrity" of a guitar from an armchair thousand miles away - several times over now - but the guitar itself seems to be fine, apparently unaware of its own condition.