It’s not the neck per se, the bridge holes have been drilled in the wrong place. Or you could say that both the neck pocket and the pickup routs are wrong. But that’s a GSM-1 and I know that the bridge holes on my GSM-1 were drilled 3mm too close together, which I only discovered right at the end. These bridge post holes are only offset slightly. Absolutely ruins an otherwise reasonable kit. You can see the pickups line up with the neck angle. I’ve had to file at the bridge mounting holes to get them to fit on the posts and and cut my own notches in the saddles to get the string spacing right. It’s not great and I’m really not happy.

The neck fitted in the slot really well, and trying to change the neck angle very slightly will require adding veneers and filing away at the neck sides with no guarantee of success. Plugging and re-drilling the post holes is the best course of action, but you really need a drill press (which Frankie has) and then there’s the making good of the finish around the post to do, which won’t be easy to do, but can be done, especially as the displacement is small.

The real solution is for the factories to drill the holes in the right place to start with, but I don’t think they’ll ever be able to do that until they use CNC machines.