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You can do yourself a big favor and have Doug at Soulmate make you a neck for that body. Its only about a $25 dollar difference from a Warmoth tilt back headstock style neck and he will level the frets at no extra charge. And you will probably get it a lot quicker. Thanks for the tip Mammoth! I'll look into that.

sorry I forgot to mention that. I am getting a new neck. I'm not that stupid to cut the existing neck. I'm still doing some research on the neck. I know Warmoth sells the 25.5" neck with 24 fret extension, but that still means I have to move the neck pup back, which is not a concern for me. I might just keep it at 22 frets either way, the stock neck that I have has got to go. I will make sure the neck will fit into a Ibanez Js-100 body before I buy it. I'm in no rush to get this project finished so I'm being really careful on what I'm doing.

To all replies: I understand that the scale length is from the nut to the bridge. That's why I need to shorten either the neck area or the bridge and I will need a 25" scale neck also. I just thought shortening the scale from the bridge would be a harder task because I have a Floyd Rose bridge. If I moved the bridge forward, than there would be no where for the 2 adjustable pegs for the knife edge to sit in because of the Humbucker cavity. I know it's not the wisest thing to do, but I thought maybe I'd check to see if anyone has done this before. I'm fine with keeping it at 25.5" scale. I just thought: if it was a fairly do-able task, then why not try it. The last thing I want to do is have an unplayable guitar. Thanks!

I don't get it. You're willing to change everything else about the guitar, but you're worreid about a couple of screw holes? Just fill 'em and redrill 'em. There must be some kind of weird virus going around, all these people trying to force the wrong scale on their guitars.... Thanks Mickguard for your reply. I'm sorry I'm not an experienced guitar builder like yourself. I'm worried because I don't want the neck flying off the guitar from the string tension. Maybe I should have explained a little more. I bought a used JS100 because I liked the feel of the body and I bought the whole guitar for $150 which is reasonable just for the body because I don't have the equipment and (especially)the experience to make a guitar body from scratch. I'm replacing every thing stock on the guitar and I was hoping to have 24 frets on it. The scale length of 25" would be nice, but if this is an impossible task than by all means, I would like to know. I can deal with a 25.5" scale. I don't mean to sound ungrateful but, maybe you should go easy on a newbie. These forums are for people to learn from others and I'm sorry a couple of screw holes was something I was concerned about. Thanks for your reply anyway. I know now that I don't have to worry about the neck joint.

Hello, I'm looking to take my Ibanez JS-100 22 fret 25.5" scale guitar and shortening the scale to 25" and putting a 24 fret neck on it. Now , I'm thinking the obvious way to do this would be to move the neck pup and the neck down a 1/2 inch or according to the type of neck i get to get the intonation right. I know it would be easier to just get a neck with the extra 2 frets extension but I really love the 25" scale. I'm also looking to shorten the neck joint area too. So, my question is: Is this going to be a problem because of the preexisting holes for the bolts or screws? and Has any one here ever had experience in doing this type of mod? Thanks!