Here are some progress pics if folk are interested.
Sitting on top of a Squier Strat to show how small it is.
Using a written off Pitbull engineered rosewood fretboard as a template for the fret slots on my new fretboard.
Various components. The headstock shape is an HDPE (=plastic chopping board) template for routing the headstock in place. Plan is to turn it over so both sides are routed with the same cutting errors!
At this stage I start agonising over what order to do things, because every job seems to me best done after several of the others.