The next step was to move on to making the guitar body, which was also by far the most challenging. Since I was working with a fairly narrow piece of wood (5.75"), it was difficult to fit all the electronics in a cavity that was also compatible with the folding piece (so that it would lay mostly flat). I sketched out the design on paper and tested out different designs for spacing for the electronics. I finally settled on this design, which I then used to trace onto the wood and roughly cut out. 

Then, I sanded down the appropriate edges using a combination of an orbital/palm sander, a dremel, hand files, and varying grits of sandpaper (ranging from 60 to 1500). This above and beyond the most time consuming process, especially since I had to sand all the particularly curvy parts by hand since the palm sander, dremel, and hand files were not agile enough to go over the curves. It was definitely worth it though, and the guitar wood blanks looked pretty nice after sanding.