Ok slowly moving through this build too. Its been a while since posts.
I had to re-glue a bit of the top as it had come away
I have used my drill guide contraption yet again to redrill the pine dowels from the saddle mounting holes and have fashioned two new pine dowels and glued them in to the stop tail holes. sanded down flush. sanded the body quite well (since i don't need to worry about the veneer - strangely liberating). Body has been neutral timber mated.
I have checked the centreline of the guitar with the neck and the scale length, all okay. However, the neck needs a bit of work though.
from what I can tell, I need to do the following:-
1. Fix up the headstock shaping;
2. glue some maple shim I have fashioned and sand back to close the gap on the underside of the neck join (the top side neck join fits perfectly);
3. file the neck heel a bit better and work out whether I am going to put an extension on the heel join for a nicer joint to the body;
4. fix the back bow;
5. do a fret jobby and replace the plastic nut;
6. drill out the plastic inlays and replace with MOP;
7. prepare and paint the neck;
8. set the neck.
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