Recreating a cresting rail

I needed to replace the chair's cresting rail because the original is broken into two pieces and repeated gluing attempts by the previous owners seemed doomed to failure.

Using the original as a template I drilled the angled holes for the back spindles into a block of timber which was formed from three separate pieces of wood to achieve the necessary thickness to accommodate the cresting rail's curve.

Some band sawing, bobbin sanding and disc sanding later - I've got to this stage:

More work with a spoke shave and then the high tension of the glue up!