It really is best to use thin string or cotton on the two E strings to centre the bridge, rather than try and work out a centreline with a laser etc. You definitely know then that the strings run parallel with the sides of the neck. That’s what you want to achieve, so you might as well use the method that tells you that.
Make sure the saddles are wound almost as far forwards as they’ll go when measuring the scale length, none of this ‘halfway’ business that’s in the guide.
Plus what other "helpful" posters sometimes tell you on here (as I discoveredOriginally Posted by Simon Barden
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Yeah the screws are pretty cheesey. As are the tuners but I don't expect much from a low cost kit. Just wanted a neck I didn't have to build from scratch and a easy build as my actual woodshop is not really in a working way right now. I'm not following any specific "guides" as I already know what I want to do. I combined an old strat style neck on a homemade body a few years back and put a tune-o-matic setup on it so its a combo of fender/gibson stuff hahh The laser to throw a quick centerline down the body is more about just my visual references when I start sanding/shaping, I want to know where that strap button is going to end up. Also the wood of the body is laminated together in such a way that its not really inline with the centerline of the guit so it is an optical illusion that makes you think it looks strange hahah. Once I have a few pencil lines as guides the real fun begins.
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