recent work on the spruce/maple qin

The spruce/maple qin is further along. At this point I have taken wood twice out of the insides and will probably do a bit more. It is not glued together yet. Sides are not done. It is held together by the strings more or less and some invisible doweling. The point now is to play it some and decide where or if more wood should be removed from the top. The tone is very clear. As usual open strings and harmonics sound good. The action overall is good. However one must remove the "correct" amount of wood. I have a hunch that is made trickier by the spruce top since spruce is said to open up slowly and needs a lot of play-in. I have been wondering where the wood came from actually and there is no way to tell. The spruce may have come from B.C. or Alaska probably. It is very nice to be able to see the grain.