Minor aesthetic thought for next time:
The shape of the guitar narrows/converges from the lower to upper bouts. The grain of your top has been joined so that it diverges slightly towards the upper bout, the opposite to what the shape of the guitar does.
To my sense of aesthetics, the two contradict and fight each other. If you joined the top so that the grain is parallel to the centerline, or even converges slightly, you obtain a more harmonious result. This is easily done by following a single grain line and removing the "wedge" that results along the center seam, giving you grain that is parallel to the centerline. Of course, this is done with the two bookmatched pieces together. The same applied to backs.
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