Quote Originally Posted by Groovyman32 View Post
I marked out where I thought the centre line of the body is and got the rough scale length. Then I tried to centre the bridge using the two Es. However when the strings were centred on the fret board the bridge was about 2mm north of my centre line.

To double check I loaded the pups into the pick guard and rested it on the body where I though it should be - the guard has long edge that buts up to the neck so its easy to locate. It seems like either my centre line is off or the neck is pocket is not quite straight in the body, but the poles of the pups seem to line up prefectly.

I took my centre line using the neck pocket, the pup cavities and the largest width of the body. So it's more than likely I'm off with my measurments.
As your strings line up with the neck nicely, and with the pole pieces, I think you're good.

When I'm marking up the bridge position, I find the centre line by placing a steel rule on either side of the neck, and drawing a line along the body, so that you have two lines that effectively extend the lines down the sides of the neck. Measuring along these from the nut, the scale length gives you your bridge position. Draw a line to join those points, and you should have a line parallel to the nut, and the scale length away from it. Then mark half way along that line to find the centre.

I also check this by putting some masking tape next to the nut and last fret, and measuring the fretboard width at those points, and marking the centre. A piece of fishing line stretched along the length of the guitar should run through the two marks on the neck, and the mark on the bridge line.