Alright, My brain took over and things are changing, it has it's own agenda and my concious aint' privy to the aims. Here's the picture of what I've got so far:
It's morphed into a harp bass with the long strings rather than short. We'll see where this goes.
By the way, this is no longer my official 3rd instrument, as it is unsanctioned and unauthorized. I am going to have a set plan, proposal and all the specifics set before construction. My third instrument is going to be this, a Fanned Fret Harp Mandolele. I've been working on the design for the past 3 weeks in conjunction with William Eaton, and now I'm toying with bracing paterns. I've also decided to bend sides rather than do what's pictured, rout them from a body blank. t's going to have 8 nylon main strings tuned organically in a combination of mando and uke tunings with six harp strings tuned organically to something as yet undetermined, though they will be in the register of a guitar's upper mids. The top is to be Cedar and the back, sides and fingerboard will be Pau Ferro. The neck will be mahogany. Same as our acoustics, the back will be radiused to 15' and the top to 30' and glued on at 50'. William and I were discussing the plan today and the innards are going to be changing quite a bit, but the profile you see is the profile it will be. The scales are 15 1/2" and 13 7/8".