Nice! Hope he didn't ship it to you in that tiny little case.
That whole glueburst topic was pretty interesting, both here and on Ric Resource.
First, I love the "glueburst" title and it made sense as soon as I saw that first photo.
Second, I'd have to defer to someone who built them 35 years ago.
Third, 35 years does odd things to wood, metal, plastic, etc., and two seemingly identical things built at the same time by the same person with the exact same materials and procedures may end up not being identical at all (I know this from owning Italian motorcycles
).
Fourth, unless I missed something, all the pics of "gluebursts" were checkerboard bound basses. Did it happen to post-checkerboards I wonder.