Positioning replacement stripWhen I was assembling the feature sheer strip, unfortunately I chose a strip that had a shallow spot (from a slip-up when cutting the strip).  Rather than try to fair the surrounding area down to the same thickness, I decided to cut out the too-thin section replace it.  This turned out to be pretty easy, and the resulting seams are barely noticeable.

I aligned the replacement strip and cut through both layers with a pullsaw.   Before cutting the second end, I shifted the replacement strip slightly to account for the saw kerf.
Fitting replacementI then removed the offending section by paring it out with a chisel, and did the final fitting of the replacement strip.
repair3.jpg (16898 bytes)After sanding, the joints were hard to spot.  The arrow points to one of the joints.