Ahoy, good afternoon all, hope the week is treating you well so far!
Lots of recent comments and observations ....
As far as exotic woods, the wood I use is already about as exotic as it comes, but I would like to offer a wider variation of it. The plan is to, as someone mentioned previously in the thread, use a handful of exotics for the body, but use "Knife Scales" as the predominant wood for the back panel and front lid of the mod. This will greatly expand the wood selection that I can offer. My previous problem was finding blocks of wood big enough for the whole body, the new style will avoid this and any Knife scale of the proper dimensions can be used.
I am only able to offer things that I can make with my own hands and tools, so although a pretty brass top, metal frame or whatever would look awesome, I don't have the ability to make it.
Things are going slowly but steadily. I have the concept down on paper and am just making it part by part, test fitting and going on to the next step.