After a long hiatus, I've decided now is the time to get started on this. I had some issues with a different build which gave me the shits and caused me to lose all interest in building for a year or so and it just sat there untouched for over a year. Anyway, I eventually got around to mostly finishing that build a few weeks back and will post that in my other thread when I get around to doing the filing of the nut slots, the neck adjustments and the intonation.
So, back to this one. This is the first time I've had a kit with a bolt on neck and the holes weren't drilled in the body. Not sure if this is how it's supposed to be supplied, but not a big deal. So, I carefully lined it all up and drilled out the holes and bolted on the neck. The first thing I noticed was the neck was not sitting evenly aligned with the body - in that the low E side sits a little higher than the high E side. I did notice that there was a slight gap between the neck and the body on that side which was caused by me not drilling big enough holes in the body so the screws were threading through the hole rather than sliding through. So, I resolved that and eliminated the gaps, but it still wasn't sitting straight. Took it all apart again and measured the pocket and some heel measurements. Pocket seemed nice and even depth throughout but I discovered the top of the fretboard to the bottom of the heel on the low E side is about 1mm more than the high E side. Knowing that, it's now quite obvious when I look at it.
So, I gather I'm going to need to sand this heel back to even it out. I don't have access to anything like a bench sander so I'm thinking at this point I'm looking at files and hard backed sandpaper. I'll measure it out and mark it all so I know where I need to be sanding to, stopping and checking frequently.
However, these are my thoughts and I tend to find the rest of you have better advice, so I'm going to leave this open to advice and not touch anything yet. I'm lacking the required equipment to do anything right now anyway. Last thing I want to do is make it worse.
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