Originally Posted by Sonic Mountain
Yes. It really is. And it was all going SO very well to that point.
So in the cold sober light of today, I took another look at the damages.
It’s ugly, no getting around it, it’s ugly.
But assessing what to do was a bit taxing. I have plenty of suitable Mahogany off cuts to patch, but the patch job would need to be either a series of little ones, or a wide swathe across the rear, for which I didn’t have a big enough off cut with the right grain orientation.
I elected to reshape the body. I drew some inspiration from one of our past GOTM winners as well as some contemporary styling from Archetype Guitars in NZ.
The lower restyle was to remove the ding caused by the body hitting the floor.
I took a JM style line to the rear of the upper bout and down to just below the centerline to get rid of the major dings.
I’m still tossing up how to reshape the upper half and the lower horn, but at least there is a way forward that is not junking it or trying to work a patch job.
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