Gibson have started doing something vaguely similar in their higher end CS-335,336,339 range.....where the body, centre block and sides are all routed from a single block of mahogany....then they just put a maple cap on top.
I can understand your hesitance DB on the stability issue, it reminds me of some great old Achtops I've played, and one I've owned, that although having a mahogany/ebony/maple/ebony/mahogany laminated neck, wasn't fitted with a adjustable truss rod [well there was some sort of metal thing you could just see sticking out from beneath the fretboard overhand that could have been a truss rod, but I think it was built like the first Martin & Gibson's, where to adjust it you had to remove the neck ...what were they thinking back then?]
The neck had gradually over 60 years, got too much back bow, and there was no easy way to fix it....it got stolen before I could do anyway.
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