Workshop: National Slotted Headstock Repair

Oof, right? Someone was using this with the tuner plate just bridging the gap of this damage! Due to the nature of this (funktastic, brutally-worn) resonator guitar, my repair will not be complicated and isn't intended to blend perfectly with the original headstock look. I'm just wanting to make it stable and practical and with a look that will fit-in with the rest of the dozens of old repairs and muck-up-repairs on the instrument.

Here I've cut the breaks to squared-off sections and cut and roughly-shaped a light-colored piece of rosewood to bridge the gap.

A bit of clamping fuss later and it's in-place and will be good to go for final shaping and drilling the tuner-shaft holes in the afternoon tomorrow.