My acoustic is severely broken, and I haven't ever been able to fix it due to a lack of money: the body is split at the lower end at two different points, and is missing a small piece of wood.

I've been keeping it together with tape for 3 years, and my father keeps insisting that a woodworker might be able to put a wooden support on the inside of the body to keep the splits from breaking more. Apparently they'd do so for about 30-40 dollars.

And I don't trust it at all. I've gone to several guitar shops that have told me that at this point its unrepairable, and I don't trust a simple woodworker with this work when there's a whole named job dedicated to making and repairing guitars.

Is it worth leaving the guitar at a woodworker to slightly repair it?

PS: I can't take pics because I don't have a phone, sorry!