I'm about 2 months into my first guitar build, a doublecut-like design with a 25.5" scale length, 22 frets. It's been a long time since I did any woodwork, basically since grade 9 (that's 12 years ago), so I'm doing a lot of (re)learning. The body is two-piece spruce with a 1/2" flamed maple carved two-piece bookmatched top in a two humbucker configuration. Not a really highly figured piece, but it should look alright. The neck is maple, with a pre-made and radiused rosewood fretboard and indeterminate inlays. Still not decided on bolt-on or set neck, but I think I've accommodated so that I still have the option to do either at this point. I don't have photos of the whole process, but I'll post what I've got here.
The spruce back hand planed, joined and ready to cut. Hand planing is a lot of work, but satisfying.
After cutting body shape with a jigsaw. Frustrating since the cut isn't perfectly vertical and required lots of cleanup afterwards.
The maple top joined and ready to glue onto the spruce back. The control cavity was cut using a jigsaw as well, using pilot holes drilled with a drill press.
Body after top glued onto back and cut to the body shape. The maple was wetted to show figure.
Carving the top using small hand tools. I'm really pleased with how easy it was and how much control I had. Progress was slow, but the result speaks for itself. Was cleaned up afterwards using a scraper and a palm sander.
Carve mostly finished and cleaned up. The carve is somewhat subtle, but should be more noticeable after finishing.
I guess I didn't take any photos of the neck progress, but here it is with the body. The headstock uses a scarf joint, which was a huge pain to do, I think I would try and avoid it next time if at all possible. The headstock angle ended up being about 13 degrees, I couldn't do it very accurately. The headstock is laminated with a 1/8" flamed maple veneer. I actually screwed up and the headstock was too small, so I had to extend it, which is a bit dangerous, but none of the tuning pegs are in the extension. The extension isn't nearly as seamless as I had hoped, but it appears reasonably robust and shouldn't break off without a large amount of force. Very difficult to do perfect, I'll have to be better in the planning process next time.