Two things happened this week that put a kink in my building plans. First, is my pickups have not arrived yet.I prefer to rout the neck pick up prior to glue up, so I don't have to work my template around the fretboard. I love my Klein pickups and have purchased many pairs over the years. They take a while to deliver. The website says 2-3 weeks is normal.....and I have had a couple orders deliver in that time frame, but 6-10 weeks is more common. Apparently, Mr. Klein himself, and only Mr. Klein is allowed to build them. And they ship them world wide.
And my bandsaw went kaput before I cut the neck pocket in the top.
So first I cleaned up the neck tenon and made a template for the pocket by taping together three pieces of polycarb with straight edges to frame the pocket and then drawing the body shape on it.
I used that to locate the position on the top and traced the pocket onto it. Normally I would bandsaw the opening out just inside the lines, but no working bandsaw anymore, So I used my fretsaw and clamped a couple of polycarb blocks to form a saw guide.
Then I glued some sandpaper to a small scraper for a sanding block and using a machinist's square to keep it the opening true, I finessed it to the proper fit.
SR