Update:
Today my New Rosewood neck and Ash body arrived.
Tip for young players: Ash weighs about 3 times Alder, therefore the tone-wood is denser and hence the declaration it has less top-end attack when playing, more mid tones. I also noticed the really nice dark grains in the Ash which made me almost rethink the vision of a black guitar, but I committed, so...next time.
After Looking at my spectacular new body and neck I was surprised that the Blackwood neck was pre-cut to a Strat shape while the new rosewood was a paddle.
I followed the instructions online, and while I was happy with the new body it wasn't as snug as the last neck and body. I did the dry build...
...it all matched up, the string distance to the edges of the fretboard were pretty consistent and so I drilled my neck bolt-on holes...
...I designed a machine head and pencilled it in and cut it.
.....So here is a tip, if you go for a sharp look like I did, you are going to have a heap of sanding away tool marks on lots of edges.
Issue #1, getting in all the crevices deep enough to sand away all the tool marks...I had to wrap the sandpaper around some small jewellers files and also do stuff by hand, I will put the pics in the following post...
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