Had a spare few hours which I decided to use to peg my block for the draws and glue it all in.

The old drill press I have is a bit rough and no matter what I couldn't get it to to track straight, and I had no idea how to true everything up, and measuring where the block was and where to drill hurt my head since everything is curved. In the end I went by eye and it wasn't terrible.

The hole from the LHS was pretty good, but from the RHS I was a tad off so it was a tight fit for my dowelling, but after I test fitted it dry I was happy enough. So then I put heaps of glue and started tapping it through.
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Looked pretty good honestly, except:
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Ding and I made two jobs out of one to patch. I know the holes weren't perfect but that is why I dry tested it and had no problems. I hate screwing this kind of thing up. The chips that came out also refuse to go back in the way they came out even after I shaved bits off every which way I thought might help, and even then it wouldn't be real pretty.

So the way I see it I'll have to chisel out a rectangular area around the chips to make a nice bed and then glue in a suitable block then make it all good. I'll just have to drill a hole in the repair block to fit the dowel so I don't have it looking asymmetrical.