http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/archive/older/pallet.html
Just for the record, this completely reamed my browser (Firefox).
unless you have all the proper tools, it is a pain to make.
The tools my dad and I are going to be using are a lathe, bandsaw, router, drill press, drill, files, belt sander, and airbrush. We've been reverse-engineering other electric guitars (Fender and Gibson style) for two years now. I'm pretty sure we can give those old boys at Gibson a run for their money. Remember, my old man and I are just doing what Brian May and his dad did several years ago.
A trick to necks is to cut them absolutely straight, if not with a very minute (read: hardly noticeable) convex curve before string tension and truss adjustment. That way, when you put strings on it, it will cause it to straighten out or bow a tiny bit concave. Makes life easier for your truss rod that way.
Another important thing about necks is that if you have already fixed your bridge to the guitar, if you make even a millimeter's worth of error in making the pocket for your neck joint, you are going to have intonation problems for the entire life of your guitar. Attach the neck first (especially if you're setting the neck instead of bolting it on). When you've attached the neck, only then should you fix the bridge, and my old man has created a special little jig for bridge mounting on acoustics (hence why my restored Kay intonates like a damn Stradivarius).
Since the slab of birch that my dad and I have is seriously so friggin' big, we're just going to make the whole thing out of one piece. We'll just rout a truss rod groove and install it, slap a fretboard, frets, and a graphite nut on there (don't know yet what scale length I want though), find where to attach the bridge using a modified version of my dad's little mount-preparation jig, mount the roller tune-o-matic bridge and Jag trem tailpiece on there, and then and only then will we start routing for pickups and electronics cavities (always good to have all that shit aligned).
I still haven't decided whether I want this sucker to have PAFs, P-90s or, god forbid, even Duncan Quarter Pound Jag pickups. Here's where I'm going to ask for suggestions. I want to have that delicious rhythm sound that PAFs make when you're using two of them at the same time, but I want the bright, snappy "DOO DOODEE DOO" sound that you get out of a Telecaster's neck pickup (see: "Slipped And Fell In Love" by Alan Jackson), and I want the bright, snappy sound of the PAF bridge. I'll have a volume and tone pot for each pickup just 'cause I refuse to have any less.
I'm starting to wonder if we shouldn't go back to the dude we got the wood from and see if he has any more of that pallet left, because damned if I don't want a guitar with a pair of each of those kinds of pickups just for the lulz.