It is my first build, but I would feel kind of lame if I bought a pre-made neck. It's like, "look! I made this guitar sort of all by myself" Not that I have anything against people who buy necks, but I would rather not. I will be drawing this on AutoCAD before I start, but I won't have access to the program until I get to my dad's house. I figure I can start by putting the bridge where it looks good on the body, and offsetting a line 25.5in to find the nut, and then move the bridge and neck together until the neck pocket is right, is this wrong? The drawing actually has it string through, but since I'm going to have an extra tailpiece and no string ferrules (or whatever they're called) I'll probably use that. With the bridge, pickups and neck all moved forward 2.5in, it looks much better, and the string break angle over the bridge looks like it will be plenty, as I have enough space to put the tailpiece up to ~3in from the bridge, which is more than my Schecter has. The strap button will be on the bottom side of the left leg, looking at the picture. Ergonomics were the inspiration for this actually, because a V style will slide off your knee, and the straight line doesn't conform that well to the body. Obviously, it won't be perfect, but I'm hoping it will be better. It is that much harder to build a neck through? After all this discussion, it seems a bolt-on isn't that simple, really, and the extra sustain could do nothing but help.