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I'll take a picture tonight :)
It's good they've started giving out thicknessed woods. I spent at least a couple of weeks getting the neck blank straight and square :) I think there were about ten in the evenings I went.
A LPJ neck is pretty much exactly the same until you come to the heel shape. I'm currently building a Les Paul and using exactly the same construction method as the one on the course (same build up of the heel block, same skarf joint, same headstock veneering) - the only difference is that it's a mortice and tenon rather than a dovetail (another time saving there :)).
Gil Yaron's is pretty much the most thorough (though somewhat dogmatic) LP build thread I've found if you fancy some light bed time reading:
http://www.tdpri.com/threads/1959-les-paul-build.194271/
I've got Les Paul, Firebird, Strat and Tele templates - hit me up when / if you get going on it and I'll happily rout you a copy of any of them.
If you do carry on building, you'll 100% be able to make an electric with what you learn on the course - everything about them is easier than the acoustic you're building.
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The course starts with the neck now. We had one session on planing a waste block square, then the next week we had pre-squared and thicknessed neck blanks to start on. Went straight to making a scarf joint for the neck angle.
I definitely think that doing some practice at home is going to be key because at this speed I'll get to the end and have a guitar but still not feel confident to make one on my own subsequently. Have ordered a clamp-on vice and will see if I can get away with using the coffee table to make another guitar at home in parallel. Currently at work with a bit of mahogany for a neck from Touchstone in the post room.
Tempted to make a Les Paul Junior neck with it - not the same as the course but would still give me practice with tools etc. Similar construction?
How many people were on the course when you did it? Let's see your guitar!