There was some progress this weekend.
I jigsawed the body shape and then routed it out using a flush trim cutter and the plywood template.
You can see I routed out some wood to lose some weight. Like a lot fo the builders here I remove the bulk of the wood by drilling it out first. I left about 15mm of wood around the perimeter and in the bridge, pickups, belly contour, electronic cavity and neck pocket areas. The bottom of these "tone chambers"
is 10mm thick.
I then thicknessed the maple top halves, again with my router supported by rails. After a little clean up and jointing with my handplane I glued the halves together.
When that was dry and after a little more handplane smoothing and cut the top to its rough shape.
Here's the top being glued to the body. As always I used up just about all of my clamps.
Note that prior to gluing I dry fitted the top to the body and made sure the center joints lined up I drilled holes for some centering pins (...nails).
After the glue has dried I flush trimmed the top overhang, this time following the body edge like a template.
Then it's on to the roundover and comfort contours.
You can see I added a dyed maple veneer between the maple top and ash body. This is because the contrast helps making the joint cleaner as it is very tricky to make an invisible glue line over such a large area.
The bass will later be dyed somewhat a dark honey colour so the line around around the body won't be so obvious.
Now I'll be working on the neck for some time. I've recieved the ebony fingerboard and my maçaranduba laminations are ready from a previous project. I need to start cutting some curly maple...
Terrible! 
