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Given the age it may be quite difficult to get them to close on their own just from hydration and clamps, so it may be with cutting thin slivers of spruce to go in the cracks before cleating the inside.
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It looks like the binding is still intact, undamaged, so wondering (I'm no expert here!) whether that would act against any pressure you could apply to push the split together?
Presumably, there's some bracing internally too, which would might also act in a similar way.
If it's solid/stable as-is (helped by the binding and bracing), I'd be tempted to leave it alone and accept the splits as part of the history of guitar. You'd need some skills, or need to spend some ££s, to splice something into the cracks, and then get it to look anything other than really obvious.
But I'd not be leaving it in sunlight or anywhere where it'd dry out any more.
However, wood does lose its hygroscopic ability as it ages, so it may not be as effective here. That is one reason the cracks can start.
You can also inject distilled water directly into the cracks as it may help clean out years of dirt before any other repair is attempted.
]How is the neck angle? The location of those cracks make me think the neck block has moved, but it could all just be age
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In the meantime just need to find a set of strings which are suitable , was hoping just to use a partial set off a standard classical music.
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