Thank you Waz, (yeah it's Gareth) that is great advice and really gives me some direction. I've just as of this evening put my first finishing coat on the body. Happy to let it cure for ages before the final sanding and polishing.

Really appreciate your help as well Andrew.

My next thing is the neck. I've done my stain coat and then finishing coat on it. When I did it, I stained and finished the fretboard as well, as I hadn't read the bit about people taping this up and not doing these things to it. I've got some Dingotone wax now (presumably to use on the fretboard). What should I do now with the neck?

Here's what it looks like, and no sweat if I have to take the tuning pegs, string trees etc out again:

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