Can I pick your brains? How would you solve this puzzle....

[HankMcSpank]

Hehehe, I'd forgot about that one (uploaded a good while ago, and I don't use my youtube account much), for those that are wondering I found an alternate use for a garden leaf blower ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5Ku-s8EEg

[Ricardoco]

could you not slit along the side and come in through the side fret markers (if they have them) it would not be hard to make a good cosmetic job after....

[HankMcSpank]

No visible wood should be hurt during the making of this drama! (seriously, I'm happy to drill unseen wood, but guitarists in gerneral are very precious when it comes to anyone taking sharp pointy tools towards nice bits of visible wood! Beside my 'cosmetic' repairs would make many projectile vomit)

[Ricardoco]

No visible wood should be hurt during the making of this drama! (seriously, I'm happy to drill unseen wood, but guitarists in gerneral are very precious when it comes to anyone taking sharp pointy tools towards nice bits of visible wood! Beside my 'cosmetic' repairs would make many projectile vomit)

I do take your point. and my cosmetic repairs may even end with the same result as yours.... more ideas then...