This photo show us repairing some of the major damage to the original top. Since the wood was so old and severely damaged, we opted for making a "faux" top out of the same grade of spruce that the original top was made out of. We then used the fake top as a backing to reassemble the pieces of the original top.

The fake top can be seen through the sound hole opening of the original top since it doesn't have any sound hole cut out.