Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
There shouldn't be any gap, and if you look at your earlier pictures there isn't one when you were just holding the neck in place.

You ahven't got any pictures of the back of the bass so I don't know what you've done regards the neck screws. But the holes in the body for the screws to go through should be just big enough for the screws not to bite into the wood, so that they can pull the neck firmly down onto the body. If the screws have to screw through the body as well, they can't do that properly.

I presume you've remembered to fit the neck plate, so the screw pressure is spread out over a wider area and the screws aren't being 0pulled into the body.

Also check that the bottom of the neck pocket and the neck heel are smooth. Sometimes the act of tightening the screws can pull the wood out around the holes, which stops the neck seating properly. Get the neck sitting flat and you'll probably find the pickup heights will be fine.
This is great discussion; thank you for this. The picture of the gap was from when I levelled the fretboard with the top of the body. To get the fretboard level with the body, it requires tipping the neck forward so that the gap appears. If I push the neck right down so it’s entirely seated flush into the neck pocket, the gap is gone, but the neck isn’t aligned straight with the body; instead it “ramps up” to the neck pickup, like this...



As for the neck screws, I haven’t assembled any of that just yet, but I will for sure include the neck plate at that stage.


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