I also make a Simplicity series. These guitars are made with plain maple, minimum binding, pearl dot or plain rosewood fingerboards, and nickel hardware. They can be either electric or acoustic. The neck is sized to his hands, and feedback is held to a minimum through deliberate design and construction features. File trimmming the binding.
People always ask a lot of questions about carving tops.
I keep records of the thickness measurements of all the tops I have carved. The varying grain structure and density of diverse types of wood always keep things interesting during the carving process It usually takes me a week to carve and tune a top. Pre-bending the binding strips. The open plate itself must be cut to size, shaped, thicknessed and then tuned to pitch. I use two tuning forks for tuning.