Neck to body attachment

Perhaps another silly question...

I've designed a bolt on neck bass guitar. The body is marine hardwood ply and the neck is some random hardwood I found in the factory

Is there any special mounting requirements to attach the two or can I just use good quality wood screws? There's about 18mm of meat on both the body and neck.

Should I add epoxy / wood glue as well to be safe? It will probably never be removed.

Bry

If you have no intention of removing the neck, I would glue it in.
Titebond is the best stuff to use in this instance.

Are you going Fretless on this?

Nah I'm putting frets on it

haha Bry you just lost a bit of respect from DB, he hates speed bumps !