Help the router slipped.

[MattW]

Luckily I still have fingers.

I did manage to rout the top on my guitar while routing the channel for the end graft




Any tips on how to fix this one? The top wood is cedar, and I have some offcuts to fill it in.

[charangohabsburg]

I would fill it with a nice contrasting material instead of trying to hide it. Well, not only fill the actual cut but rather make a proper inlay.

[rocket]

Yes what Markus said,, maybe something along the lines of what you've used in your rosette.
Rod.

[Kim]

Yeah, just keep the cut going and match it in with whatever your doing with the binding and purfling.

[simso]

I would do a small inlay down there ,just turn it into something of a different shape to the butt insert

[MattW]

Thanks guys. Pretty frustrating I just got the box closed a few weeks ago, and been making various jigs to rout the end graft and bindings- first cut and the sleeve on the router slipped

I can try to inlay a decorative piece in there.

I was also thinking to scoop out an area around the cut and glue in a matching-grain piece of the spare top wood, then plane smooth. I could use Titebond, CA, or HHG what would be best?

[charangohabsburg]

I can try to inlay a decorative piece in there.

Not too long ago, Allen has done a phantastic job after having run into a very similar problem. Check out this thread.

[johnparchem]

Thanks guys. Pretty frustrating I just got the box closed a few weeks ago, and been making various jigs to rout the end graft and bindings- first cut and the sleeve on the router slipped

I can try to inlay a decorative piece in there.

I was also thinking to scoop out an area around the cut and glue in a matching-grain piece of the spare top wood, then plane smooth. I could use Titebond, CA, or HHG what would be best?

Any patch that is cut across the grain will never go way. I would figure out a decorative inlay to put there. Stay away from CA on the top as the exposed end grain can wick a nasty stain up into the top. Tightbond or hide glue are OK.

[Allen]

I had to do something with a router mishap recently. You can see my solution to the top here.

[kiwigeo]

A nice inlay of a router going haywire on a butt strip??

[MattW]

Thanks for all the input, it has really helped to get over this relatively minor but near fatal blunder

I have made an inlay that matches the rosette (jarra, mahogany bordered by Tassie blackwood) that covers the offending area:) Its glued in with titebond (thanks for all the glue tips).

Its not sanded smoooth yet but looks ok.

The thick bit of Blackwood at the bottom is to allow room to route(wish me luck) the mahogany bindings in and still have a border of blackwood between the bindings and inlay.... hopefully.

[Taffy Evans]

Great, I always found that an "accident" is the mother of creativity. I have a sign in my shop that says
"In The Middle of Every Difficulty Lies Opportunity". Over the years I have used inlays creatively in many instances for this very reason.
Good fix. I have a router blooper to show too.