Those pictures are all from before the neck was glued to the body. i think i may go with a very thin spalted maple top, i really like the look of it but i have a good few more weeks before i can get home to start working on it again so i have time to think about it. any suggestions comments ideas are welcome. I'm sure most of you if not all have a better concept of building guitars than i do. The body is 2 inches thick right now, the back is going to get sanded down a lot and probablly a little off of the front to to work out the imperfections in the wood such as dents, the dents on the face of the guitar is one of the main reasons i started thinking of adding the maple top. any feedback would be greatly appreciated