Originally Posted by
Simon Barden
But it's not going to be easy to remove that neck pocket section in a single piece. You can cut down the sides but you'll need to chisel the remaining block off, and the wedge effect of the chisel is likely to end up with the block splitting along the grain. Also, cutting will remove some of the wood, so, certainly at the sides, you may have quite a gap to fill. Better using epoxy than wood glue for that as wood glue becomes weak once you can see daylight between the surfaces to be glued.