As promised, here are pics of the neck heel cleaned up, as well as the finished headstock. I cleaned and trimmed up the headstock cap a little. Now I have a question. The only steps left is before finishing and assembling is drilling the tuner holes, gluing the neck on, gluing the fretboard on, carving the neck profile, and trimming the neck portion of the neck pickup cavity. The only problem with this procedure, is if done in this order, the router might hit and cut the fiber optic strands and may damage them. If I glue the fretboard on after trimming the neck PU cavity, I will have to wait to carve the profile afterwards, which I planned to do on my spindle sander. Any suggestions?
BTW, the contrast in color between the neck and body may be because the body is honduran mahogany and the neck is african mahogany.