I am currently on Lawrence Nyberg's list to build. Here is the tentative build. Short neck (calls it Traditional) oval hole mandola. Paduak wood back and sides. Engelmann top. Mohagany neck. After I long discussion we went with Paduak. Lawrence expressed a great like to the tone it produces. He states somewhat like walnut like if have and love on my Mowry GOM. Paduak starts of reddish in color then oxidizes to a darkish brown color. I am excited. He is scheduled to start in the spring. I really enjoyed our conversations and felt comfortable with him. The folks in the CBOM section regarded his work well, so here we go...
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