Let's build a guitar - part 4

Right! A month has gone past in which I've been quite preoccupied with this whole thing. In fact I was so busy building I haven't got to posting anything on my progress. I'm sorry really because in the end I'd like this to become something I can put to use later. I hope to find time later to explain what I've done and why.
I can tell you this is a fun project though. Oh yes.

Beginnings of a neck in 5 pieces with alternating grain directions
and a mock-up fretboard to aid feeling when shaping the neck.

I rasped both sides of the neck to thickness and planed the remainder to
thickness with a spokeshave.

These are the bookmatched sheets of maple for the top of the body held by massive
clamps we use at school for glueing. Used wedges to compensate for the irregular
shape of the sheets.

And this is how they came out of the thickness planer after glueing. Nice.

This is the body bandsawn and beltsanded to shape with the maple
glued on top. Here I'm drilling holes to the exact depth of the various
cavities to make chiseling them to shape a bit easier.

My workbench at school. My homeboy Tony Flow scrutinising his cabinet work.

Cavities on the backside of the body for tremolosprings (right) and controls (left). The
controlcavity is not yet cleaned out properly as you can see from the drillmarks.

My teacher's trusty old router plane. Doing a proper job taper-thicknessing the neck.

The business end.

Good thing one of my chisels (left) is of the same thickness as the truss-rod.
Made chiselling it's channel a tad easier. I made a square sanding block
from scrapwood and a piece of sander belt for things like shaping the headstock.

OMG!! There's still a LOT to do but it's unmistakingly turning into a guitar! :D