Here's an update and rough timeline of what I'm going to do Soon™
So what's new? BODY CONTOURS! The guitar is getting thinner around all edges, specially horns/belly cutout and arm rest... it's also tapering towards the bottom. As it's stands now, that's all the purpleheart that will be poking on the front side. The bottom strandberg-like cut out is also in it's final form. All the curves are now curved out as well, no more weird shapes when you run your hand along the edges.
Audio jack was also made a tiny bit bigger so it can take even the more chunky cables with metal sleeves. After all that, the fretboard got thicknessed, radiused and glued onto the neck at well. Truss rod works properly, no rattling... super happy how it looks and feels considering it's bamboo.
Left to do: shape the neck, hammer frets in, dress and level them, drill tuner holes, make the electronics cavity cover, recess the bridge and varnish the guitar with Minwax satin finish. I hope I get everything but the finish done by saturday, so I can string it up and see it everything is fine and dandy.
I'm getting anxious, I can't wait for this build to be done