Mandolin Back

I have a gorgeous piece of figured maple with spalting for the back soundboard.  My dad cut this tree down in Missoula, Mt about 20 year ago.  The spatling is caused by fungus. The city was expanding Reserve St and needed to take it out.  We were lucky enough to keep it from going to the dump.  This was much harder to carve than the spruce top.  I endured many more blisters than I did carving the top.