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Help - Repairing Routing Mishap


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Good advice. Your only problem is that you need to cut your patch piece to fit the shape of the inside of the cavity. On that basis I think you would make it easier on yourself in the long run by cleaning up the rout straight. Yes, it will enlarge the hole a bit however you will have a flat surface and a better chance of a clean fit. In addition you should be able to move the new piece around to match the grain better than as not. I wish you luck on this save.

Oh, do remember to strengthen the thin edges you have created also.

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Good advice. Your only problem is that you need to cut your patch piece to fit the shape of the inside of the cavity. On that basis I think you would make it easier on yourself in the long run by cleaning up the rout straight. Yes, it will enlarge the hole a bit however you will have a flat surface and a better chance of a clean fit. In addition you should be able to move the new piece around to match the grain better than as not. I wish you luck on this save.

Oh, do remember to strengthen the thin edges you have created also.

Thanks for the replies, everyone.

Prostheta - when you say 'cleaning up the rout straight', what does that mean? Do I just square off the hole i created, or do I chop that whole section of the body off and match it up? i really want to keep this body clear, or stained with no filler (kind of like those black Washburn N4s).

Would either of these options work?

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I just meant the inside of the cavity wall. It isn't going to be easy to fashion a repair part to fit that perfectly, whereas a straighter piece is far easier.

+1 on that.

Make it so a flat sided repair piece is glued in. Id also glue in a 3mm veneer into the bottom of the cavity to strenghten the thiner areas up.

Then just do a burst to hide the repair. Maby even just an edge burst in black, similar to what I do on most of my Walnut guitars.

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