You're much braver than I. I would love, and hopefully will somday, build my own guitar. Until then, I can dream. There's a forum you might want to check out called "The Gear Pages". There's a section there for luthiers that I'm sure you can find a lot of great information in. You can find it here. Be sure to keep us updated.

BTW, I'm a member of that forum as well under the same name.