10mm heat formed Acrylic or Coloured Perspex?
As far as getting it off the ground goes, there's a dude on Ebay selling laminated neck blanks at a reasonable cost, the fishman Piezo units like Robin used are cheap as chips (I have one sitting at home that may or may not have been a rash impulse purchase after reading through his whole build thread) and you know there'll be a chorus of well meaning forumites geeing you up and cheering you on.