Leave the blood on it. It looks like it will be under the fingerboard anyway. You'll always know it's there.
For your bracing layout, I start with the location of the bridge. You can locate the bridge from the 12th fret location. I draw the bridge out on the inside of the top first. I also draw out the upper transverse brace. (some people call it an upper face brace) Locate the upper ends of the "X" where the are 1" or so from the upper transverse brace. On a guitar this size I'd locate the other ends by barely catching the corners of the bridge. I'd use one tone bar on a guitar this small.
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