Thanks for that on the bass bridge, and all that!
fantastic read.
the placing of the bridge and the wiring of the pickups and volume and tone knobs is going to be tricky real soon!
Take your time and don't worry about drilling any holes until you have done the finish and getting around to final assembly.
Lining up the bridge is very important and easiest way is to install low E tuner and G tuner, clamp neck in place, run both those strings through the bridge, over the nut and take up some slack on the tuning pegs, then drag the bridge south taking up string tension to somewhere near where you think the bridge should end up. This helps to align the north/south plane and how much string gap on each side of the end of the fret board. Highly recommend using masking tape as a straight edge reference point to show where these strings pass over the body & PUP's on the way to where bridge will be seated. On my EX-5 I found that the slots for strings on bridge saddles were not in the middle of such and used this method to properly line things up as using edge of base plate did not work so good.
Next part is measuring the scale length and the cheats way out would be to take a measurement off another bass as most are around 34" but the more accurate and better way is to measure distance from inside edge of nut to apex mid point of 12th fret, then double this to saddle on the treble G string side as it seems that mostly this will be the shortest string length and the fatter strings will need to be screwed back down south to get intonation right. Upside is most of the bridges have quite a lot of travel which immensely helps with setting up the intonation.
Once you have figured out scale length add more masking tape around base plate so you know where it should go after you have drilled the screw holes. Another tip, put tape down where you are about to drill to prevent any damage from drilling or accidently touching another part of body whilst drill is still spinning.
Finally, as the kit looks like Basswood, add another coat or two of top coat before commencing any wet sanding as fresh untreated holes will swell once wet and found this out the hard way myself.
Cool looking kit and keen to see how things progress.
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