Router slip - - Help again!

[Pat.Hawkins]

Hi Folks,

my young fellow is building his first tenor ukelele and as you can see the router elevation slipped during the cut.

(We did so many good practice cuts - why does that happen)?

The RH cheek is still quite full and holds quite well but the LH one has a lot of meat missing and the neck can lean away from that side fairly easily.

It would be great to rescue this after all his effort.

Any advice?

Cheers

[kiwigeo]

If the gaff area is going to be covered by the heel block/neck then I'd square up the gaff area, glue in a patch and then re-rout the mortise.

When I do my mortises I rout a small central area to final depth with a straight cutter and then work out towards the final outer limits of the cut with a dovetail cutter. The depth setting on the router is never changed.....I think this is usually the recommended method when running a dovetail cutter.

[simso]

I always say, turn your mishaps into features when building.

It pushes our skills and makes us come up with new ideas that people go wow.

For me, I would possibly recut the mortise larger, and then cut a piece of wood to fit the hole that is diffent and then recut the mortise again, this will give a nice feature to the area.

Steve