Building a BC-1 guitar for my son

[Trevor Davies]

The first question is fitting the neck to the body. I've carefully sanded the body to allow the neck to fit in. It seems to fit in quite well now, but it doesn't sit flat (photo shows it better). Is the actual neck supposed to be a couple of mm above the guitar body>?

You can see the bottom of the neck is fitting into the body quite well, but the top with the frets seems quite a way above the body?

That looks right! The fretboard and the pickups will sit above the body. The neck also sits at an angle of about 4 degrees down from the body!

Have a look at picture 5 of my MBM-1 pictures at: https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/showthread.php?
t=12509&p=227787&viewfull=1#post227787

It is the same.

[Barno]

Oh good! Thanks Trevor.
I was mindful of just keeping on sanding - better to check before taking more off, it's a bit tricky I'd imagine to glue the sawdust back once I'd sanded it!! haha

I'll post my next question

[Barno]

p.s. you've done a great job of the finish on that guitar 👍

[Barno]

Here's question number 2...

Page 9 of the Assembly guide says: "Don't press in the threaded inserts yet. Instead
wrap either multiple layers of masking tape or
some plastic tubing around the posts and push
them into the post holes in the body"

Mine barely go 1/2 way into the holes (I've attached a pic). If I added tape as they suggest, I wouldn't even get it started in the hole. I have got a tiny sanding bit for my Dremel, but again thought I ask / check before leaping into sanding mode!

I've attached 2 pix, one shows the inserts in to the point I can't push them in any further - they're only about 1/2 way in.