Re: X braced oval hole mandolins.
You might want to reach out to Bruce Weber. When I was first getting into mandolin and I looked at Folk of the Wood's website and the main X braced instruments there were Webers and Mickey had an article where he discussed the lateral brace and tone bars vs X bars with Bruce.
Jamie
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