RE: Less than perfect?

"...I'm on track for something special."

You sure are! I love highly figured wood. I have cased a built in shelf that holds the power and communications center in my home in wormwood that was part of a fishing dory once. The gorgeous cedar shiplap was sunk, I assume sometime in the 90s, and pieces recovered on the beach after they had been attacked by young teredo worms, leaving small holes with the characteristic calciferous lining in the red wood, which I treated with Brazilian Rosewood oil, making the wood a deep, rich, mahogany red.

I love it, but it could never make a useful guitar because of the very weak, wormhole ridden, soft cedar. The extraordinary textural quality of the wormwood also would be all but impossible to route into the more complex forms you need for a guitar, but the simple shelf was doable, or at least I did it. Your spalted and lightly wormy wood, with it's variety of colors, from dark brown to to very light, almost yellow, has enormous character you wisely take a very light hand with staining.

I think that's one of the most beautifully figured guitars I have ever seen.

Thanks!