French Bass full restoration

[Matthew Tucker]

remember what it used to be like in there?



YUK! All that black crap had to be wetted, heated and scraped off.





here is the new block being glued in with temporary cauls.





Yes its a multi-piece block.

You can see how the upper edge has been damaged by those pesky nails.



I'll have to trim those rib edges off neatly. I'll lose about a cm off the top of the original rib, but it is no big consequence.

The block is intentionally oversized and will need some trimming too.