The Hub

It was only a matter of time before one of these arrived on my bench. The neck on this 71 SG Deluxe is caving through to the neck pickup cavity— In a similar fashion to what happens on old jr’s. Both sides of the cutaway have cracks that extend through to the pickup route and I can flex them easily. Problem is that the cracks are not straight and wander all over. I worry about being able to get enough glue in there because of this.

Thinking it would be better to route away the cracked mahogany and insert new tight fitting splines of mahogany that go all the way to the bottom of the pup cavity. This will also give me an opportunity to pitch the neck back slightly when I glue them in— because the guitar also has basically no neck angle to begin with. Over the years I’ve seen various repairs to LP Junior neck pockets etc, but nothing on an SG cutaway like this.

Anyone have any go-to methods? I guess I’ll try injecting and blowing in epoxy first? Have done lots of structural routing/ HS repairs and can definitely pull off option two— but I thought maybe I should head to TLG first for ideas on this one. Thanks in advance for anyone’s thoughts!