Hi! I've got a new project, I would like to try a guitar with a vibrato unit, I did that only once, a PRS-like guitar for my brothers 18th birthday in 2002. This might become 2 guitars, but that remains to be seen.
First, I pulled out a cherry board from the shed, which is over 33cm wide, so I can get 2 one-piece body blanks:
1 by Goran P, on Flickr
I roughly cut 2 pieces, trying to avoid cracks on the ends of the board:
2 by Goran P, on Flickr
and then, a few minutes on the neighbor's thickness planer reveals fresh surface - again cherry
3 by Goran P, on Flickr