This will be nice to follow voigts.
Unforchantly your last build was just finishing when Rise pointed it out to me about the res you had built.

One thing I did think of for the front panal was, since it is curved, you could laminate it.
As you said earlier, you have found a local source for hardwoods and if I remember correctly, sourcing good quality hardwoods at a fair price was a challenge before?
If you could just find someone locally that has a bandsaw to use, as I don't think from the photo of your scroll saw you will get the hight to cut a nice piece of
hardwood (I vote Cherry ) down into, say 3mm/3/16th sheets. Then you could laminate the sheet back together but with the right size radius cuvre in it.
As to making the jig to form the curve, for a man of your skill that shoulden't be that hard, should be fun actually, well, atleast more fun than playing with a beltsander for an hour.

Looking forward to your next update mate, good luck with it.