First of all, yes the body is biscuit ed together, and I am practicing with scrap ( a fellow guitar builder gave me a free piece of birch to practice on). I was planning on still keeping the guitar, and have bought very nice parts for it though. I would like to be able to still use the body...
You can see why I would want to save the guitar (its a fireman) here:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2011-8/1368737/2161051
They are just pics, but I have spent a LOT of time getting to this point.