Hi guys,
just got a question about putting my first project together, you'll have to excuse the quality of my photo below as its a really old camera and the resolution is extremely poor :-)
Anyway i'm at work at the moment so i cant get a proper pic at the moment but hopefully you;ll get the idea from this. my trouble is the green bits on the pic, ie the fretboard and the trem in relation to the body. as the fretboard is quite high off the body, this means that the trem has to be raised away from its pocket and imo it will look crap if its raised about 2cm from the body. the fretboard sits approx 2x its height above the neck pocket which i'm guessing is too high. Should the bottom of the fretboard ideally sit level with the top of the body, and if so is it best to shave the excess off the back of the neck? the only other way i can think of is to shave the neck pocket to make it deeper, but there is not a lot of body depth to work with.
By the way its an Ibanez style JEM project but i'm piecing together bits from all over the place, which is why the neck and body might not fit together perfectly etc.
Thanks in advance