Hello World! My first guitar project

[ross.pearson]

While I have your attention, is 12mm too high for the fretboard (highest point of the fretboard radius)? I'm worried I'm about 4-5mm too high. I'm not sure how that's happened, I probably measured the neck depth incorrectly when routing it.

[Woltz]

While I have your attention, is 12mm too high for the fretboard (highest point of the fretboard radius)? I'm worried I'm about 4-5mm too high. I'm not sure how that's happened, I probably measured the neck depth incorrectly when routing it.

This may give you issues when you try to set the action. It's going to depend a bit on how much adjustment you have in the saddles and also the height of your fretwire. As you are aware, typically for Fender type guitars we shoot for around 9mm from top of guitar body to the centre of the fretboard radius. My strat neck pocket was a bit shallow and I was only just able to set the action where it needed to be before I would've needed new grub screws. I'll grab a ruler and see what my measurements were. My intention in the future is to deepen my neck pocket a couple of mms but it's playable for now.

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[ross.pearson]

This may give you issues when you try to set the action. It's going to depend a bit on how much adjustment you have in the saddles and also the height of your fretwire. As you are aware, typically for Fender type guitars we shoot for around 9mm from top of guitar body to the centre of the fretboard radius. My strat neck pocket was a bit shallow and I was only just able to set the action where it needed to be before I would've needed new grub screws. I'll grab a ruler and see what my measurements were. My intention in the future is to deepen my neck pocket a couple of mms but it's playable for now.

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Thanks Woltz!

Yeah, it appears the Pitbull necks are designed to fit a 20mm deep pocket, not 5/8" (15.8mm). That's where my 4mm of difference comes from.

Before I re-route the neck pocket I'm going to check the scale length. If the scale length of this neck on my body don't match up with the bridge pup route then I'm in real trouble. At that stage it's either new scratch body or new scratch neck time.