@bpower 
Looks great 

@boo 
Agreed it looks like spam

@wayne_f 
Did you just leave the slot as it was

@koendb  Bakelite does get very brittle and I’m not sure about the best way to remove it. Try some warm water around the edges. At the time it was made people only used water based glue I think and it’s…   Read more»

@koendb  The soundboard crack might be due to the pick guard being glued on as this prevents the wood from expanding and contracting naturally. I suggest taking it off and fixing with double sided tape to allow more flexibility. To fix…   Read more»

@wayne_f  I think Mark did a video on how to route a truss rod slot after the neck has been profiled. Search through the utube videos I’m sure you will find it. You could glue a veneer shim on the…   Read more»

@jamesbisset 
Great song the other night James 

@russ 
They have a few utube videos and play at Civil War re enactments. Not very PC by modern standards but still good music.

Something different

@darrenking  Yes that makes sense. Even on a full size violin the notes are very close together higher along the fingerboard, so if the frets are closer than the width of a persons finger then it will be hard to…   Read more»

@darrenking  If you add neck stop and body stop together, where I’ve marked in red, then that’s the scale or string length. Hope you can read the page ok. Violin type instruments and early guitars evolved in the same part…   Read more»

@darrenking 
Yes I will try and get a better photo