Seems like I didn't get much done this weekend, but that's because I spent a lot of time working on the carve, which now looks like this:
still a couple of rough spots to even out, but it's 90% there, I think.
to give myself a break from working on that, I thinned down a leftover piece of maple with the safe-t-planer to use as a veneer for the headstock:
and an even thinner piece to use as a TR cover: