Bass Guitar Body Blanks

Building my own bass guitar questions…?

I want to make a new bass guitar with my dad and while my dad is good with his hands we both have zero experience. So i need some help

Answer as many as you can:

Does the shape of a bass affect the sound and quality and weight balance?
We need to know if we need to make the body a ccertainshape to bbalancethe neck if we are going to just buy a neck

Does anyone know a place were we can by purple heart and quilted maple llaminatesheets?

what are a few things we need to kknowif we are going to build the body from scratch. (no pre-cut blanks)

were can we get a template for the pickup holes and electronic stuff?

Hey, all the help I could offer is this following link:

http://www.kingbass.com/build-a-bass.html

It seems pretty informative.

good luck and rock out !!