You can make transverse saw cuts and take out the wood with a chisel. Then
clean up with a plane or whatever. Dont' go all the way in with the saw
because the wood will not cut out smoothly. Practice on scrap first.
If you can figure out some way to do it with a power saw it allows you to
set the depth of cut.
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