Excellent repair job @koendb. Toolbox? 🤔…. there’s an idea. 
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I do like that fretboard @nsj. 🤌 
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Cheers @koendb. How’s your build coming on? 
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Welcome Rey. Enjoy the ride. Hope you don’t get too much sawdust in your dinner. 😂 
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Then I carved out each end of the centre strip to accommodate the heel block and end block.

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Time to carve the back braces into shape. 

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Then glue in the four back braces.

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The next stage was to mark out each of the areas of the centre strip where each of the four back braces will pass through. Then carve them out

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