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developing a strange and ambitious plan for this block, it suddenly hit me that if I did replace that part of the top, where the joint was replaced before and I keep making it worse, I could drop the new block in all in one piece while it was off, and that wasn’t enough to move me, but then I realized I could just fill that space with the top of my new block too, that I wouldn’t need another piece of spruce, or even to cut another slice of maple for it, but simply make my block a little deeper, right up to the top, and then my top would be a single piece of spruce again, sort of, by simply throwing away the broken bits.
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I can pick the grain to follow, make that side the top, and then I don’t have to support the broken bits with the block, possibly restricting the soundboard, it can float freely at that end of the guitar again, except at the edges, maybe just braces and the edges.
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Looking forward to making another new and interesting mistake. 😀
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But being able to build it all first out in the world and just drop it in at the end, that’s going to be worth a lot. Also, in the same vein, I can build the whole thing first, before I break anything, make sure I can be ready first. Got a real engineering sort of a plan about how to make sure it fits.