Still practicing how to attach neck without involving glue just yet....seems to be a bit of a problem...don't ask for photos my computer refuses to allow me to download photos to pit bull site...but the problem if I put the neck in so that the fretboard end meets the body is hard up against the block ie no gap where the neck block closest to where the pick up will be, there is getting towards being a one mm gap where the back of the neck meets the back of the guitar. If I push include using a clamp so that this gap virtually disappears back at where the block meets the body above the pickup the block is obviously not meeting the guitar body for the full depth of the body. Sort of a little rock of the neck between the best fit at the pickup end and the back end.
The temptation is to ensure that there is minimum gap where the back meets the bottom of the guitar (that would look best) and clamp down with a fair amount of pressure where the fretboard meets the body to make it as good a fit as possible... and assume that I can adjust the location and height of the floating bridge to compensate for this variation... we are talking less than a mm and at that gap which is to some extent covered by the overlapping end of the fretboard, so really can hardly be seen
I hope that all makes some sort of sense, but would appreciate your comments....suspect actually that this was perhaps not the appropriate guitar for a first build.
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Steve
Last edited by Steve Mars; 01-04-2017 at 03:43 PM.
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