Hi Pranav, everyone here wants you to succeed. We're here to help you succeed.
Take a look at this:
This is my second mandolin. I was high on the success of my first mandolin (which still plays, but doesn't get played much). So I decided to bust my ideas out into the world in style. Extreme neck angle for "better projection"? Check. Nine piece neck of curly maple and cocobolo just because I can? Different styling (as I see it now, a mediocre D'angelico knockoff), check! Relieved bracing (bracing with holes drilled in it because engineering), check! A bunch of other stuff, check!
All this stuff that I'd read about on online forums, I piled it all into this instrument. 400 hours, man.
I strung it up and the top collapsed. It didn't explode, it just flattened out. Unplayable.
Sounded great, the 2-3 notes I got to hear before the strings hit the fretboard.
So here's my advice to you. Build something.
Option A: Build conservatively and based on conventional wisdom, as we have all advised you. Probably get a playable instrument.
Option B: Do your thing. Show us all how it's done. Put all your theories to the test. Dump all the knowledge of Wikipedia into your work. As a result, you WILL learn something. And maybe we will, too. Maybe you'll end up with a playable instrument, maybe not. Who cares? You'll be smarter, and maybe more humble. :-)
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