arch top MANDOLIN wood pre-carved CNC plates maple spruce by for luthier A

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To start with, I will answer what my most common question is:  YES, I can mill your wood that you send me, and YES, I can do octave mandolin plates as well as some guitar CNC work.  Please inquire and we can work something out maybe.
Up for sale is another set of mandolin plates.  Sitka spruce and eastern curly maple.  Top is 4-piece, back is 2-piece.   All plates cut by CNC using excellent files that I made with some great digital marine architects.  I have been a professional luthier for 28 years now, carved over 100 plates by hand and about 10 years ago my arm was experiencing the nerve pains associated with repeat stress syndrome - I had realized I was overusing in a certain way and started having Roger Siminoff pre-carve mandolin plates for me and then he retired. So a friend who had a CNC started milling plates for me once I had a file made (which took a year and had many revisions) and then I got my own CNC and learned the engineering and programming aspect of that, which brings us to present time.  So every so often I offer a mandola or mandolin kit for sale and people also can send me their own wood, please message for custom work.   I often make mandola with 16 or 17 inch scale length with this plate.  The final pass on these surfaces is such that it's ready for 180-220 grit sandpaper.  The spruce always needs more sanding/scraping than the maple, but expect do some work. ha!
This set includes 1 top, plus one back and sides, as seen in the photo. Laser cut paper template included with which you can make your mold.   Top wood is sitka spruce, back and sides are curly maple.  I can cut sound holes for an extra fee. I can offer other services like CNC mold, laser template on acrylic, side thickness sanding and custom wood milling for top and back.  I can do mandolin, mandola, octave mandolin, Mandocello, guitar and jazz guitar.  I can also do fingerboards, etc.  time and material billing or send your own material.
Photo show is a mandola made from this system, but is of course, not included.
thank you for your interest!