Thanks for all the kind words everyone.
Arnt - Dave and Colin's suggestions were:
1. Mahogany back and sides (would you expect anything else from Colin  )
2. An X braced back (which Colin believe gave more mid range punch)
3. Parabolic Bracing
As it ended up the customer wanted scalloped braces after playing a couple of our other guitars, hence Dave's reference to bottom end. Other than that there's nothing too tricky going on under the bonnet.
The player wanted this guitar for accompanying fiddle tunes and is a reasonably aggressive strummer so it has medium gauge strings and the top and bracing are a little heavier than we would normally do for for an OM used for fingerstyle.
Hesh - pink is a very fashionable colour amongst the trendy luthier set. I seem to remember some other bloke had some pink night attire sneaking into his pics recently. 
The Ubeaut is the equivalent of a 4lb cut.
We spray it neat, wait 15 minutes for it to flash off then spray another coat.
That's it.
Let it cure for a month and then rub it back.
Since this one has been finished we've bought a new Sata Minijet 4 spray gun, which is waaaay better than the cheapy we'd been using. Much better flow out and less sanding.
Plus we've bought a Festool ROS (thanks Lillian) so we now level sand with 400(dry) and then 1000 and 2000 grit Festool Platin 2. Then it's straight off to the buffer.
This one was hand rubbed so you can see some undulations in the finish if you get up close to it.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Cheers
Bob
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