Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Molloy View Post
FrankenWashie it’s messing with my OCD too, I was thinking some neck ferrules would make it less obvious but on closer inspection it looks like the holes might be too close to the edge to recess them. Looks like I’m in for a plug and redrill too unless I can sand the edge enough to make it appear that it’s straighter

I had similar thoughts, and you need to be careful about how much you take off the squared end. Mine was literally about 1.5mm at the high end. I was able to mark a square line and use my disc sander to get to that line.

Once that was squared, I used it as a reference datum on the front edge of the plate to gauge how far out my existing holes were. All four were out to an unacceptable degree. I Drilled the holes out to a 5mm dowel, plugged and let them set and then trimmed and sanded both ends of the plugs. Then I re-drilled, set the neck up in it and verified the centrality of the neck to the pocket and the bridge center line and marked the spots on the neck heel where the pilot holes need to go for the mounting screws.

While it seems like a lot of fiddling, it better to do up front as a whole before you get too far.