With the top out of the clamps, rough cut and test fit, I'm all ready to clamp it up.
Clampzilla!!!
OK, I've routed the neck pocket Tele style. All good. I want to move onto the PU and control routes, Strat style, but I'm trying to figure out the correct placement of the Strat template.
Now, I've read that a Strat neck works on a Tele body but a Tele neck on a Strat body won't intonate correctly. So this leads me to believe that, while looking down on the neck pocket, the center of the Tele heel and the center of the Strat heel are in the exact same place along the scale.
I took a Strat pic and a Tele pic and overlayed them in Photoshop. I sized them so the 20th and 21st frets and the dot maker inbetween line up. This would show that my thinking is correct.
According to the overlay, the Strat neck would fit into the Tele pocket but leave a gap in the corners. The Tele neck would get hung up in the rounded corners of a Strat neck pocket and not seat all the way forward...thus causing the intonation problem.