I participated in the Memphis show this past June. It was an enlightening experience seeing so many other luthiers' work. I was very pleased with how mine compared, but still found some things that I wanted to work on after playing all the other amazing guitars. So when I came home, I made up my list of what I wanted to try and have been slowly chugging away on this guitar. It is a HRW and Englemann Spruce parlor. Some of the things I wanted to try were for aesthetics and other were for tone and function. So here is the list of new things I did on this one:
I reduced weight anywhere I could, used solid linings, played around with using different line weights in my purfling, carved the neck thinner and with a quicker heel transition, made my own wooden tuner buttons, used a different oil finish for the bridge and fingerboard, carved the bridge to reduce weight, tuned the top using chladni patterns, and used a hardener in my lacquer to increase durability.
Overall, I am very happy with it.
But if it sounds like I expect it does, it will probably be long gone by then 
