Alex, get some spruce. All the bracing in Stellas was spruce except sometimes they used a birch bridge patch.
I have used Larson style laminated bracing, spruce and BRW or Wenge, but it is a different sound. If you want it to sound like a Stella, you have to make it like a Stella. Do you have any specs of the originals? Info? A large part of building is sourcing materials and gathering info on the originals. Most Stella auditoriums were either 15-1/2 or 15-3/4".
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