As soon as I opened the kit, I was really impressed with the body and the neck. The timber in the body had a nice grain and seemed really solid. The neck looked good and straight.
The neck pocket was very snug. In fact, that was the first thing I planned to address. It had a gap of maybe half a cm between the end of the neck and the top of the neck pocket. This was due to a slightly high left corner. I initially hand sanded it little by little and then tried a dremel with a drum sander on it. Eventually I got that gap down to a more passable width. It’s one of those points that’s easy to take too much if you’re not careful.

Timbah First Bass by Tim Gill, on Flickr