Yup-all too familiar with too much squeeze out, hah. I think the open grained wood is what threw me for a loop here. I'm much more used to gluing up closed grain stuff, so this ash seemed to suck up a lot of glue in comparison. There was maybe a 1/32" bead.. and on the back side some spots with no bead at all. but-the thing is solid! Not worried as both sides were flat, true, and had a full layer of glue before joining.
minor minor minor upate-haven't had much time and I am waffling between some design options-probably as a means of procrastination. Perfectionism always keeps me in the design stage! But I started cutting the bridge piece from maple. It will take some trickery to get the saddle slot and string through holes lined up on the opposite side if I use the CNC, but I think the pickup route was successful. A funky little burn spot where there was an odd tool path but besides that all clean. Waiting for my pickup from wilde to drill for the polepieces.
And a design question-which knobs? I like how basic the armadillo plain stainless ones are-goes with the minimalist design, but the WD ones are also very cool and are a bit shorter which I like (.5" compared to full height barrel knobs). Gonna be using vintage style locking kluson tuners in nickel, FWIW. I know its early for this but its nice to know some hardware details so I can build the finish, etc. around that.
WD: nickel, .85" DIA, .55" tall
Armadillo- stainless, .75" dia x 1?" tall
here's a pic of them from a reverb listing- armadillo's product photos are not good.