OOps !! Its a Hole in One

[Ken Hundley]

Anything you mix is going to show. Do you have a piece large enough to follow the grain all the way up the guitar and to the left? That is really the best option here. I had an issue very similar to yours, though a little smaller, and right at the peak of the bout. I was able to graft in a peice of the cutoff right in a grain line. I took a level to use as a straight edge, cut the top right on one of the hard grain lines. Then, took a new peice, cut it also on a grain line, and grafted it in. Shaved it to match the route line for the binding (didn't have purfling on the guitar) then sanded it flush. Can't see the mod at all. I was lucky, but I think at this stage of the guitar, you could do the same. Yes its a lot of work, but I would rather put the work in now than try not to point that out all the time.

[Kevin Sjostrand]

That sure is a pretty rosette.
Ken has a good point, and it will show less if you have patch that is inline with the grain. It is pretty hard to make it disappear, but it should work better then the irregular patch you have there now.
I did a very narrow patch on a crack line that I repaired before bracing, and it looked like it was not going to show, but it did after sanding the top smooth. My patch showed more then the crack line did. I should have just left it alone.
I sure hope it works out for you.

Kevin

[Ken Hundley]

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I finally found the pictures I was looking for. Here, you can see the peice that came out. I bound the guitar with the peice missing,

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Then cut a peice of scrap spruce. I flooded the area with glue, and tapped in the slightly oversized scrap. Once it was dried, I sanded the whole thing flush.

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Completely undetectable now.

[Zen]

Thats amazing Ken !! I had better rethink my strategy it seems. Only thing is I don't have any of the original top to use but I guess something with a similar grain will do the trick..Just wondering what glue did you use?
Fingers crossed from now on !!!

Thanks again
Rusty

PB180007.JPG

I finally found the pictures I was looking for. Here, you can see the peice that came out. I bound the guitar with the peice missing,

PB190013.JPG

Then cut a peice of scrap spruce. I flooded the area with glue, and tapped in the slightly oversized scrap. Once it was dried, I sanded the whole thing flush.

P5030005.JPG

Completely undetectable now.

[Ken Hundley]

Now that I think of it, the chunk was left over bracing material. I can't remember whether it was titebond or whiteglue. it was a tight fit, however, and the glueline looks like a grain line.