Quote Originally Posted by Groovyman32 View Post
I put the ferrules in and clamped the neck in to make sure the bridge is still in the right place. The strings run over the pickups okay when they're mounted in the new pick guard so that all seems good. I noticed there is still very small gap (0.5mm) at the front of the neck pocket (I thought I'd fixed that) - should I attempt to fix this?
It's up to you. It will be more a visual thing than anything else. Unless you can machine the end of the pocket and the end of the neck on a CNC machine or a complicated router jig (preferable CNC made), getting the curves to match exactly is nigh-on impossible.

I've used chalk on the end of the neck pocket to mark the touching spots on the end of the neck before, and using that method you can get quite close to a match, but still never perfect. It's very easy to just keep going and then you find your neck is 2mm shorter and the neck pocket 2mm longer and you've still got a 0.5mm gap!