Keeping to my schedule of no more finishing work until after Easter, I have been checking out the neck fit and I have found some slight anomalies that I would like to correct. BUT I note the caution in the Pit Bull manual, not to sand down the heel or floor of the neck pocket. The gap between the neck rebate face and the front face of the body (sound board) rises to about 2 mm. You can see about 1 mm convex curve on the neck and I have put a little Blue Tack in the floor of the neck pocket and pressed home the neck to find there is about a 1 mm gap in there at the inner part of the heel. I therefore feel I could shape the neck rebate face to the sound board and get a much closer fit. Although this may cause a little grief on the other joint surface matings.
Is there anyone with some experience in this area? Photos below
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