The sides on an acoustic guitar are particularily vunerable to impact damage as you can see on this Martin D 28

We

'll pay close attention tom getting the cracks lined up just perfect, and add lots of clamps.

Good as new !

I fix a lot of broken headstocks. Sometimes when the break is bad we have to fortify it with some inserts.

Turns out pretty good !

This an old Gibson with a bad top crack.The cross brace let loose and the pressure of the strings pushed the top into the sound hole.

The bridge was coming off.

and the tuner buttons had had dried up and most were completely gone

With a little TLC we got everything back to where it should be and kept it original. a happy customer.

So I got a template ( I must have a hundred different ones) and figured out where to put the access for the battery, got the router and....

All Done.

Here we wanted to put some EMG pickups in, but the battery would fit in the control cavity.

Just about done with my new CNC router