So out with the old integral bass-bar. Kinky grain right around the area of the upper terminal-hole, so I have to approach it from many angles in order to not dig in too deep.
The area is so kinky & twisty, in fact, that the original carver decided 'to hell with this' and left it quite thick. 6-1/2 mm, when the normal top thickness here might be around 3.
Cleaning up the top with thumb-planes and scrapers, I discovered an original repair. This little section of wood was pulled out, somehow, during the original carving, then glued back into place, prior to the (original) final graduation of the top. It is open along one side and will need to be re-glued.
In the course of the planing and scraping, I had to remove the original cleats holding the saddle-crack together. The crack came open, so here we are, good enough to start thinking about the new bass-bar, so I have re-glued the crack, and installed 3 new cleats.
There is also a wing-crack to repair and the open crack at the neck, but I don't like to do too many cracks at the same time. I'll get them after this sets.
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