My granddaughter is taking woodworking in her senior year of high school. Her first project was a laminated cutting board which came out beautifully. The second project, a chess board not so good, and that's where I could use some advice.
The board is fine but it is set in four rabbited mitered sides and glued with yellow glue. She must have glued the board in place before assembling the mitered sides. Anyway, the miters are open and the board is glued in such a fashion that the miters can't close. We could use walnut powder and glue to fill the miters but the right way is to disassemble the whole thing and re-assemble and re-glue it.
The question is, what is the best way to remove the board from the rabbited sides without doing damage to a very nice chess board. It appears to have been glued at the bottom of the rabbits to the bottom of the board.