Keep your cat away from your work area.
Don't clamp the neck too tight when you are gluing it, especially on a semi hollow body. I cracked the body into two pieces
Don't sand near your computer unless you want to be cleaning the sawdust from the motherboard and the circuits of the cpu.
Don't make your neck too long.
Think twice before cutting, gluing, finnishing, routing,...........
DON'T sand your finger. It hurts. And when you are furiously sanding, you CAN burn your finger, because the paper gets seriously hot.