Ok, phase 1 of the carve is complete. I kind of like how steep the carve is at the waist of the guitar, but I want it to be a lot more gradual at the belly. I think I'm done with the grinder at this point, which is nice because it's like the router in that every second I use it I'm worried I'm going to slip and mess the whole thing up. I'll just use a random orbital sander with some 80 grit paper to blend everything together. Then I'll probably sand it up to about 220 or so to make sure it's in good shape and I like the contours.The things I'm thinking about are the controls. I originally specced it for one volume, one tone, and the switch, so I made the control cavity big enough for those three components. Then later I decided to put the switch in the bottom horn, but I still made the control cavity big enough for three components. So I'm trying to decide whether to do volume/volume/tone, V/T/T, or maybe V/T/Kill switch. What else would be cool? (I already have a couple of push/push pots, I'm thinking about using one as a coil split and the other as a direct out).After that it's time to do the carve on the back (just a basic belly cut), and then I'm going to bleach the wenge before I glue the fretboard on, which I expect I'll do over the weekend. By this time next week it's going to look a hell of a lot more like a guitar.