I took an archtop building class with Dale Unger a couple of years back. There were three of us in the class, and we all started with materials in the same state - most notably the front and back plates had CNC carved initial arches. The recurve around the perimeter was not carved though, we did that by hand in the class. All three sounded different in the end, and Dale's input was that the recurve is the biggest factor in the sound.
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