@risk  I just uploaded to pics of the front and back for you. There are several critiques videos of me playing it when i first started learning but i did a side by side of the silent vs my regular acoustic (my internets being bit finicky so i'll have to add the link a bit later) . I don't have a heavy mute so i can't compare it to that but i do think it sounds slightly louder then an electric violin. I used it when i lived in the barracks, occasionally using the ultra practice mute, but no one ever complained about listening to my squawking so i think it was quiet enough it didn't come close to going through walls and i worked at night so i was always playing when everyone else was asleep. 

@fiddlestix  thanks  

@Fiddlerman  i so wish this was my house! but sadly its just the one i'm renting while i'm here in greece. If i could take it with me i really would!  As far as the violin nothing is filled in about the sides. I bought it this way, but i'm not sure the maker originally wanted it to have cut outs or not, but it was done prior to adding the varnish.

@DanielB   I agree! Its almost the same weight as my regular acoustic. A bit heavier around the neck and scroll but over all not that different. I find it still really fun to play and since its a bit louder then an electric its very easy to keep good intonation, and it wasn't that hard at all to transition over to a regular acoustic ( other then getting used to how loud my new one sounded!) I think it would be a great project for an  not so tonally great violin, or one a few mistakes were made on during the making. Mine doesn't have a makers mark in it, and at the time i didn't think to ask the shop where i got it. When i first saw it i thought it was an instructional violin to show how everything put together (and its great for that to) but it was awesome when having to be quiet but still loud enough for a tuner to pick up I've had a blast with it, and i know when i get back to the states i'm planning on putting an amplifier on it and playing around with it as an "acoustic" electric.  

Here's some pics of the sides. as far as i know from violin construction (which is only what i've seen on youtube) it seems to be just like a regular acoustic. it does look like they put a coat of varnish along the sides but not throughout the whole instrument. on the front and back plate it stops about an inch after the edges.  I think they might of done that so it was more protected since its more out in the elements but i'm not sure. If you would like more pictures just let me know I'll get batteries for my camera so they are more quality then these from my phone.