First Guitar build Ever, Starting with a scratchie.

[farnzie]

Hi All,
Well Last week introduced myself and said i was waiting for my pay check this week and i was going to buy a tele kit, well a little change of plan, i decided that ill skip the tele kit and build one from scratch.
So with out having any woodworking skills this should be rather interesting.....
plan is to build a A chapman ML-3 guitar,

So I bought some hardwood from local timber joint, i wanted tassie oak but they didnt have anything big enough for guitar body's so i ended up with Kiln Dried hardwood, I actually like the grain on it so im happy with it.
The neck blank i got is tassie oak though so i'm happy with that.
I have had to buy everything, from clamps, router, digital calipers, fret nippers, all tools that it takes for guitar building. But i now have them so its all good.
Have ordered a heap of stuff from different web sites, got stuff from stew mac.com, realparts.com and i also ordered my pick ups off pitbull guitars.

I got plans for a tele off the web and printed out to scale so i can make my templates.
any way here is some photos of some of the stuff i got,
Please excuse the mess in the back ground, we are doing an extension of the house at the moment so there is crap absolutely everywhere.