materials?
same as for your guitar supplies unless you want a kit with prebent sides.
the only difference from guitar parts is that you can get two zouks from a single dread top!! or maybe a spare if you make a mistake!!
tail piece is from a mandolin, tuners are from mando or guitar (I prefer individual sealed guitar tuners to 4 on a plate, but that's personal pref)
for truss rod I use one from a 12 fret guitar.
neck & fretboard blanks are standard, though you COULD buy a slotted board. LMI do pretty much any scale length you want, or you could get a guitar board and cut it back so the 1st fret slot becomes the nut. do your sums first though!!
as to plans, I made my first zouk by scaling up a mando body and sticking on a long neck!
if you want to buy plans then I've heard nothing but good stuff about
$33.50 from Stewmac.I've started making F holed flat top zouks rather than regular round soundholes because its less hassle (for me) to cut Fs than all that fidgetting around with rosettes.
of course, you could always go a LITTLE off the wall, like this one I made......
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