Hi everyone! (and Trevor in particular ). Merry Xmas to you all!

I am moving on with my son's guitar. I have 7 weeks left until his birthday, I'm hoping I can leave about a month for the painting (to do a good job).

I've drilled the 4 x hoes in the neck to connect it to the body, while it was clamped. I didn't drill through the neck, which was planned but still a relief!

I have 3 quick questions for my next progress:

1. I'm about to start checking the height of the frets - I don't think I need the neck connected to the body for this?

2. But, if I need to do any checking and adjustment with the neck to see if it's concave / convex - I will? And to do the concave / convex check - I'd need to (temporarily) put the bridge etc back?

3. It might be worth me test-fitting and drilling the 4 x small holes per pickup, before I think about painting?

thanks as always for your thoughts
Barney