Please understand that this is only an observation . First , that appears to be nice work . That piece of metal on the top surface apparently makes this guitar shrill and very tinny sounding if what we are told about top wood choice is correct . After all , how warm sounding can a piece of what appears to be machine turned metal sound ? Let the tone wood slings and arrows fly .
It is a very bright guitar, but the pickups were custom wound to compensate for it. IMO the pickups matter more than the wood, but the materails still affect things.