Then, we came across a problem. The boards for the carved top were quite a bit longer and wider than I had represented in my mockup. Therefore, the mockup design is a bit flawed in that the wood was not really to proportion of the actual cut. My intent was to get as much of the burl in the guitar as possible...so we took some out of the middle to move the burl inward.
The burl wasn't very symetrical anyway to begin with. That's actually one of the things I liked about it, but I'm afraid that now that we've taken an even bigger swath out of the middle, the boards look funny together. We did take out the same amount from each side, but it doesn't look like it....
Can I get some opinions from you guys on this, please. Did I just hammer the top? There is still time to get something else if you guys agree that I just screwed the pooch.
Here's Scott squaring up the boards before we glued them.
The actual boards rough-cut as I asked Scott to do.
Here is the same photo, but I dropped in neck, pickup, bridge, and stop piece placment. I feel better about it knowing that some of those places that don't marry up quite right will be hidden...but still not sure I'm cool with it.