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  1. rogerzilla
    Both neck and body are finished, but I'm just working on the pocket, not the neck. I'll keep going then.
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    The truss rod should hold it together OK (the tension on a bass would bend or snap most woods without one).
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    How precisely does the neck have to fit the pocket (or how good is it in a "factory" guitar and how much impact does it have on tone, sustain etc)? The neck I have is a nice tight fit sideways in the pocket - it goes in without being forced but I can pick up the guitar by the neck, held by friction alone. However, there's a small gap between the heel and the body of around 1mm, because the radius of the pocket route seems to be slightly larger than that of the neck, so it stops just short of the end of the pocket (I know on some cheaper factory guitars the radiused corners of the pocket are drastically over-routed so this can't happen). Is it worth having a go at the corners with glasspaper to make the neck fit flush against the end of the pocket, or doesn't it matter?
  4. rogerzilla
    I briefly owned an Epi E-series Les Paul Basher (google it) which I bought on *bay because I wanted the guitar stand it came with (!). The - bolt on - neck angle on that looked extreme, but the joint was stable and the guitar played OK.
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    Yup, the string holes are always a problem. On a Strat they're about 130mm from the bottom of the body, and cheap bench drills normally have a column-to-spindle reach of only 105mm, so are useless. The sort of bench drill that's big enough to cope with holes in the middle of a body is an expensive professional piece of kit, probably running on 3-phase electricity too. If you use an attachment like this, practice on scrap wood lots to see if it works.
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    Personally I find the shorter Gibson scale length quite difficult; it may only be a few millimetres, but there's just not enough space to cram my fingers in for "A" shape barre chords above about the 5th fret. Gibsons also have narrower string spacing than Fender's "F-spacing" at the bridge end, but that really is a tiny difference. My other guitar is a beater nylon-string classical, and that has (almost) the same scale length as a Fender.
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