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I've discovered how laborious sanding/filing the bottom of the nut is, although I was doing it by hand, rather than DarkMark's belt sander trick!

I've started on the cheap plastic nut that came...

Thanks, FrankenWashie!

I've just had a go at stringing up, and as Simon Barden predicted, the nut is WAY too tall. I've just popped back to see what Simon suggests to fix it, so that's next.

Oh...

After about half a dozen coats of Danish oil all over, and a few more on the headstock, this is what we have.

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Next came shielding the control cavities in the body - I'd already...

Fret crowning file arrived so, rather nervously, started the filing. I don't know if I've done it properly, or enough, and I guess I won't know until I get it strung up and try to play it. I decided...

Soooo...after waiting nearly three months, it turns out that the factory can't supply Pit Bull with replacement necks for DMS-1 kits (24" scale length). That's a bit of a blow and something of a hole...

So whilst I'm waiting for the neck to show up, I decided to get going on the body finish and the electrics. Not the ideal order of tasks, I suspect, but better than watching TV....

Body...

So, various bits and bobs ordered to work on the body while I wait for the new neck to arrive, including a new random orbital sander (how on earth did that get in the order, dammit?) and body sanded...

Good news and Bad news on the neck;

Good news; Pitbull have agreed that the neck needs to be replaced. Thank you, PBG, very grateful :)

Bad news; They don't have any maple short scale necks in...

Simon,

Thank you indeed for drawing my newbie attention to this! I'll get onto Pit Bull now and see what they have to say.

Thanks again.

Got the plane out to create some shavings. I decided to do the neck pocket after all as it gave me a manageable sized chunk of wood to practice with. CA glue, as advised by all you knowledgeable...

Thank you every for your replies on the various topics I raised!

My aim for this first build was to go with everything stock, but making it as good as possible first time round, then think about...

I've been looking for some time for a kit to be my first guitar build; I wanted a short-scale instrument and also something a bit different to the usual trio of ST-, TL- and LP-types. I'd have gone...