Building a Telecaster styled guitar neck: bandsawing the blanks & routing the truss rod

Things are rolling along famously with the Telecaster necks. We have seven blanks in total, four are mine, and the rest are Paul's. I had two maple blanks, and I sawed the additional two out of yellow birch, which is remarkably like maple in density and general appearance. Both maple and yellow birch have a pinkish hue. From the reading I have done, birch will make a neck of similar quality to maple, but the use of maple is buoyed by tradition. Our plan is to come up with three or four (at most) good, useable necks. The lesser quality necks will become fodder to the process. Having a few to make "first cuts" on has proven to be a good idea.

YouTube video explaining the process to shape the blanks & route the truss rod channel.