Back is back together and cut! Skunk Stripes are in with minimal tear out. The wood is like 2 woods together! Some rock hard some like cruising through a Marshmallow.
Here is my oops. The router gide slipped and I didn't know till it was too late.
Here it is cleaned up and ready for the graft
I grafted in about a 1" wide strip. I have to look hard to see the boo boo.
Then 5 skunk stripes
I made the forms from scrap from building a chicken coop
The sides are bent. I didn't hear any cracking