I would not call finish perfect. Maybe "close enough for jazz"?

Put the neck on today. It's beginning to look like this thing might someday be a guitar. I used the "stew mac" method of inserting a drill bit that was exactly the size of the holes in the body to put a dimple in the neck. I also used a drill press. Since the fretboard is radiused, it took me a while to figure out how to get the bottom of the neck to be totally perpendicular to the drill bit. Simplest way I could figure was to screw a 3/4" piece of wood to a flat 8"x12" plank. The piece of wood gave me perpendicular surface for the flat side of the neck to butt up against. I clamped the neck to the piece of wood so that it could not rock, and then clamped the plank to my drill press table. Worked like a charm. Holes in the perfect place, and perfectly perpendicular.

My other "innovation" was to dip the about 7-8mm of the pointy end of the neck screws into turtle wax. They went into the 1/8" neck holes like butter. I was looking around for candle wax, which I did not have handy, when I spied the turtle wax. I wasn't sure it would work, but figured it would not hurt either so why not? Turns out that it worked WAY better than the hard waxes I have used in the past.

None of these are great insights, but since I have not seen reference to them on the interwebs, I figured I'd post them FWIW. Mostly, I am just happy to have the neck on without incident so far.