ES4-B 1st Build

[fender3x]

Man, Fenderx you've had some ups and downs.

Yeah, the neck angle is only off by a little bit, but that has caused a kind of cascade of other issues to solve. Fortunately, folks on the forum will generally chime in with useful advice.

How did you fix the drill press issue?

I built a platform for this sort of cheezy drill guide I had lying around, and did it with that. I put up a thread about it here:

http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...light=fender3x

I bought the drill guide long ago, and had never found it to be particularly useful. It's amazing how much better it got once I mated it with a platform and a pointy drill bit ;-)

[fender3x]

One of the consequences of the neck on this beastie being slightly off center is that the joint is really good on one side, but not too good on the other. Here's what the bad side looked like:



What I finally decided to do was to see if I could cover the space with a little piece of maple. The maple I have is a bit darker than what the neck is made of, but I thought it might not stand out if I matched the grain and covered a relatively large part of the side. So, I cut a very thin piece with a coping saw.



And then clamped it into place with some yellow glue:



When I took off the clamps it looked like this:



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