Some people were building guitars without any powertools at all - but at least the router is definitely bonus for cutting purfing channels and rosette.
Get a good chisels - you don't need many of them maybe just small and medium, but get as good as you can afford (japanese made perhaps) and buy a hand plane - stanley and footprint are still ok - get one that is smaller than bench/block plane. Get thin kerf hand saw (model makers). And some stash of sand papers- from 80 to 600. Find cabinetmaker scraper (it is a piece of metal basically with burr) it saves lot of sanding.
You will need to bend those sides - you can make your own bending iron from a metal pipe and heating element put inside. That's all you can build fine guitar with those tools.
Why you didn't get the serviced kit from LMII? This saves like 2 weeks of the most troublesome parts and it is a good start for first time builders.
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