You can only do dendro on the spruce top; but - you can match the curl of the maple back to related instruments. This instrument sounds too subdued for the concert hall, unless it can be adjusted, but I don't think there would be much improvement. I just heard (on YT) a copy of the King Joseph that sounds amazing. I wish I were in the market for a fiddle, because it would be that one. There was also a mass market violin that a young man played on YT that had as much voice and sound quality as any great violin I've ever heard. I wish I could find that vid again.
Had either of you read Frankenstein-which, clearly, you have not-you would have known that Frankenstein is not the monster but the maker; or in your analogies: not the violin but Mr. Reuning. (Musicians and literature... Oye.)
