Quote Originally Posted by peterh View Post
I just got my ES-3 in the mail yesterday, so it's great to see another build progressing ahead of mine - I'll be eager to see your progress and I'll probably ask a lot of questions. Speaking of which, one thing I noticed on mine is that the bottom of the neck opening on the body (the part piece closest to the back of the guitar, that the bottom of the neck glues onto) is very rough with lots of torn out fibres (I'll try to get a picture). I've looked at your photos but don't see what that shows that area clearly - does yours (or anyone else's whose reading this) look like that also? Wondering if it's a concern for strength when gluing. As tweaky mentions, you can't easily glue the sides so I'd think it's very important to get a solid glue joint on the bottom.

Oh, BTW what's that white block in your first photo at the top of this page?
I've just been trying to see if a small trigger clamp can fit inside the body and clamp either side of the internal neck block, against the neck when it's fitted.
I can get the clamp inside the guitar body, and I can vaguely get it into position, but the problem is that there is very little wood for the trigger clamp to clamp against at the cutaway side of the neck block...plenty of area on the toggle switch side.
It's doable, but I doubt the effort put in would be that effective or worthwhile in the long run.

The other problem would be trying to position this internal clamp, get it to actually clamp, and get the neck set at the correct neck angle all before the glue dries....I can't see it happening even at my optimistic mode.