Then later on I put the neck and strings on.

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And off and on and off and on, while sorting out the neck shim.

Neck has just a small amount of relief in it, getting rid of it wouldn't have lowered the string action.

The high and low string saddles were already on the deck.

Shimming the neck angled it back a little, lowering the strings.

I'd already removed and sanded some height off the nut earlier too before sticking it back.