Thanks the advice. I'm still terrified, but not quite as much now. Fretting a neck from scratch as "step one" was not the introduction to kit guitar building I'd bargained on!!
It'll probably be another few months before I can dig this out again, but I will certainly keep the build diary up to date.
If you get stuck holler! There’s a number of blokes up Brissy/GC way that might be able to assist. I’ve done similar work for others if you run out of options and nerve, but I’m in deepest, darkest inner Sydney.
FrankenLab Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.