Building a Telecaster styled guitar Phase I : The Neck

This road will ultimately lead to one or two completed Telecaster styled guitars. The first phase of this long and winding road is to craft a selection of necks, taking them all the way from rough-stock blanks to the finished, ready to attach, neck. Three or four will be built in the hopes that one or two will be of usable quality. We have chosen to build a non-capped fret-board style with arced truss rod channeled in from the back side, with adjustment accessibility through the heal. To add a challenging piece of complexity, telecaster uses an arced truss rod channel, curved to a radius of 147". Building top-drawer electric guitar necks and bodies is all about the design, quality, and functionality of the routing jigs. Good jigs . . . good outcome.
Roasted maple will be used for two of the necks. The remainder will be maple. Roasted maple is currently the rage. "Roasting" is a process that torrifies(sp) the wood to stabilize it and to help it transmit better tone. It has been used recently on acoustic guitar tone wood to give the wood the same characteristics as naturally mature tone wood. This is my first experience with neck torrifaction.