I did a little more fettling on the pick guard today, tidying up some of the curves with sand paper, needle files and a blade. No massively discernible difference but it's a little cleaner around the edges. I drilled the holes for pots and switch and to my relief everything fits inside the cavities of the body - was there ever any doubt? (yes)
My goal for the rest of the day was to try and get the neck bolted to the body. But (spoilers) I didn't get that far.
First I gave the body another polish - looking sweet!
Then it occurred to me it would be easier to install the tuners before the neck was bolted on, but before I could do that I wanted to polish the head stock face and file the fret ends. So I did that... nice.
And then I mounted the tuners:
This is a milestone as it the first major piece of hardware installed. I managed to avoid drilling through the headstock and I think got them straight enough.
I then dug out the plate the and screws for mounting the neck. I think one of you mentioned somewhere that the neck screws should pass through the body without cutting into the body itself. The screws are too big to do that so I thought I'd stop and go and research before drilling the neck holes in the body any wider.
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