Re: A-style and F-style.
While I prefer the F-style, the A is still very contemporary. It seems as if you're basing your instrument on how it looks rather than how it sounds, not that that's necessarily bad but certainly not the way I would do it.
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
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