profchris
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Mahoganoid woods are pretty easy, unlike that spruce whose stripes make things very difficult. My uke back is two or three unrelated boards (well, they might all be from one board but cut cross grain). I think (this was a couple of years back) I just trimmed the boards to a close visual match, and then when joined the sapele grain patterns largely hid the join(s). If cut along the grain from a single board the match would be even better.