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Couple of issues

For my first guitar, I cheated if you will. I bought a pre-made body, and a neck off ebay and have acquired all I need. It's a 25.5 scale guitar

Problem 1

I have to do a little modification to the neck pocket on the body. The neck pocket on the body is square, the edge on the neck had a curve to it. I'm going to assume the best method to resolve this is to simply modify the body, not the neck yes?

Problem 2

The bridge posts I purchased where smaller than the size of the holes that were drilled into the guitar. So, I happen to have some oak dowel, i cut it to length, and glued them in so that I could re-drill the holes to the proper size. Not really a problem but it's leading up to it. In fact, turned out perfect.

Problem 3

I have an Original Ibanez Edge trem, I need to figure out where to put the trem post holes in relation to the scale of the guitar. Having said that. I really need to wait until I get problem 1 resolved. Solving issue one is going to obviously alter the length of the guitar about 1/4".

Does anyone know, how to determine the center line of the saddles on an original Ibanez Edge trem? Or, would anyone happen to know the exact dimension away the bridge posts should be from the nut for the Ibanez Edge?

Thanks a million all!!!!!!

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Here is my neck problem

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live....NeckPocket1.jpg

Here the neck is inserted into the neck pocket as shown in the above image, looks to me like there is something off here? As if the neck is not close enough to the bridge route.

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live...._BridgeDim1.jpg

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live...._BridgeDim2.jpg

Here are two images of my Jackson DINKY for comparison.

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live....JacksonDim2.jpg

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live....JacksonDim3.jpg

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http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/index.htm

http://cid-f1c667b529532c45.skydrive.live...._BridgeDim1.jpg

After looking at the dimensions for the ibanez trem, it looks like the exiting routing is all good around the bridge area, however, it seems like the guy who built the body, did not bring the pocket in far enough to the bridge routing. So, is it safe to say that I simply need to adjust the pocket so that the neck slides in closer to bring it into the exact dimensions from nut to center of the bridge post?

I realize that seems like an obvious question, but I just want to make 100% sure before I do this.

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Looks like you've got a neck with a Tele heel shape, and a body with a Strat neck pocket. From Warmoth: (go to the necks section and click "will it fit my guitar?")

The heel shape of Strat® necks is rounded at the end, Teles® are squared. Strat® necks will fit Tele® bodies but show a gap at the corners. Tele® necks may not intonate on a Strat® body without neck pocket modification.

So, as you suspected, you're probably going to have to adjust something a bit to make that neck fit and intonate.

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Looks like you've got a neck with a Tele heel shape, and a body with a Strat neck pocket. From Warmoth: (go to the necks section and click "will it fit my guitar?")

The heel shape of Strat® necks is rounded at the end, Teles® are squared. Strat® necks will fit Tele® bodies but show a gap at the corners. Tele® necks may not intonate on a Strat® body without neck pocket modification.

So, as you suspected, you're probably going to have to adjust something a bit to make that neck fit and intonate.

This is actually not a Warmoth, well, not made by them anyway. It could be an exact copy, really not sure about that. I bought it from a guy who had it made for him, he just decided he didn't want it any longer.

So, the guy i bought this from, I was chatting with him this morning, he told me that not all necks are the same, as depicted in this photo

http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e64/heem...nt=IMG_0888.jpg

Got me thinking, rather than modify the body, I can simply cut into the maple neck (leaving the fretboard in tact). I squared up the neck cavity, it reduced the length from nut to bridge post by 1/4". However, it's still 5/16" too long. So, I was thinking about cutting 5/16" off the maple (again, leaving the fretboard in place).

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