Ok so I took all the advise I got and thickened up the bottom, shortened the pedestal, and reduced the distance between the striking surface and the sound board and ended up with a couple of live ones. The one on the left is 3 1/4" cherry aluminum/glass the one on the right is 3 1/4" tiger striped maple blasted glass/glass. They both have a lot of volume but can be nice and soft as well. A couple more like this with a little more fine tuning and I can put more focus on the CA finish. Thanks for all the advise and help.
