What would you do?

Hi Chris, you have a good video personality. Anyway, lots of things you could do, it really depends on how conservative or wild you want to be. 1) As you said decorative edging. 2) different types of edging, eg, flame or wave look, could be made from aluminium or brass etc. 3) If fretboard & neck are not completed yet then those could be widened at the bottom. I built a through neck guitar with a wider fretboard over the body. 4) carve the edge of the pocket all the way around so that the body slopes down into the neck pocket, you could also curve the side of the neck to match. 5) you could paint the guitar with a solid colour, so, simply fill the hole. 6) extend lines or channels from the hole out onto the top, then fill them with coloured resin.

Hallo Chris, Misserfolge sind immer ein Vorbote des Erfolgs. Bei dieser Art von Geschäft gibt es immer einen zweiten Plan. Ich mache auch ab und zu komische Fehler. Aber wenn ich die Lösung für diese Fehler finde, fange ich an, weniger Fehler zu machen. Da kannst du einen Block setzen. Es kann in ein paar verschiedenen Dingen durchgeführt werden. Alles Gute. du wirst diese arbeit machen. LG Mehmet

Ooh, that's a toughie Chris. Maybe a mahogany ring around the neck pocket and a matching mahogany block right through the body where the strings pass through with the string ferrules mounted in it?

I’d go with the pocket surround and then do surrounds for pickup and bridge to match. 👍

Love the fact you share these things. I’d probably route a full channel to the end. Inlay a bit of interesting hardwood, then re-cut the neck pocket. But then again I don’t do easy…

Inlays some racing stripes right through the whole top just wide enough to cover the mishap.

Definitely an inlay of some darker wood filling up the hole. Preferably a big chunky one te really emphasis the mistake and take ownership off it!

I like the surround idea, but I would absolutely just fill it and the spray the body if you have access to anymore of that fantastic orange.

I'd patch it with similar wood, then re-route (as originally intended) and do a sunburst finish. The dark edges of the sunburst would cover any grain mismatch. Or do a fully painted top. Good luck!

Inlay 2 strips (your wood choice) along the sides of the neck pocket as deep as the neck pocket and the entire length of the guitar. racing stripes. Get fancy and add some maple on either side of some rosewood or ebony.

Yep, yep, yep...what they said! I like the full length route with inset, maybe a fine veneer "pinstripe" accent. Subtle, and intentional looking. Great vid showing things happen, even on a good day. You got this!

I like the racing stripes idea that a few people have suggested. 👍

You could make a faux neck through stripe through the top or even just racing stripes that run from the sides of the neck? If not I’d go with the top👍

I’ve said it so many times, use bushes instead.

If you can't hide it make a feature of it, like it was always meant to be there. Racing stripes or a central wider strip that has already been mentioned both sound like the way forward 👍

We all have had those moments Chris. Quick n dirty fix it to simply bind the channel You can use a different material to draw attention to it as a feature or make an insert from the body off cuts. Personally I would go with epoxy resin and frik ken la zer beamz🤪😉🤣

I like the idea of a new top, sandwiching some veneers...it will make the arm carve pretty

Route a strip down the middle and inset a pretty piece of wood rather than the whole top?

A top layer of veneer covering these 'acoustic' holes?

Use the 8mm top and bring the bevel into the top so that it looks like it started that way and that's how you carved it 😉 👍