Up to fiddling with the neck and eyeing it off, seems to be straight ie. no twists. Checked with a 600mm level and appears to be very slightly convex. The manual says that’s pretty standard and won’t need anything done to it now. I had a look with the level to see if the frets needed a touch here and there. obviously being convex, it’s rocking around and there are the odd fret that needs a shave. Wondering if I need to properly flatten the fretboard with the rod before going ahead and get them all at once or, if I were to just put the high grit on the level and go from there getting them pretty similar in bunches of 3-4 frets. Something that’s a little harder to find an answer for through google, I also sort of think that something like that doesn’t matter as much because once tension is on the neck everything moves around.
Also with the placement of the strings, I threw the e’s on, they run down the board very straight and consistent which is nice. Low e is just a fraction closer to the edge in comparison but I’m assuming that’s because the string is thicker so the middle of it probably runs relevantly the same distance from side.
High e string starts touching the frets roughly on the 17th fret where as the low e runs the same height, cleared from the frets, the whole way.But as I said before, the neck didn’t appear to be twisted so I think that’s just a matter of raising one side of the bridge later on
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