This is a multi-inovative music machine. The neck is adjustable in the plane necessary to change the string action(the playability if you will). That part works marvelously. The top is fashioned from Douglas Fir. Yes the stuff that grows everywhere around here. A really cool tone wood as I've just discovered(see the strings on the guitar). The top is cut away much like an electric guitar so the strings above the joint at the body are more reachable. And the top is braced with a fan system instead of the old, but still good "X" system. Due to the neck system, the guitar can and is put all together before finishing, and before any finishing touches such as the cool looking wood around the soundholes. This ability to assemble, and play and critique is way cool, because everything changes the sound, everything. The real question now remains. Do I cut out more of the top? I would cut out a comma, right where the arm rests across the guitar, and Iwould cut out the side a bit there as well, giving the arm a relaxed fit on the guitar while playing, and of course, looking cool. But the tone will be changed, probably a lot. So is the xperiment worth doing, or should it wait for another guitar? Perhaps tomorrow will tell, perhaps not.