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How about throwing this subject off a a little bit. I have a Jackson Fusion Pro I really like but I'd like it a lot better if it had neck thru construction for more sustain(thinking maple neck Mahogany wings or all mahogany), ebonyand bound fretboard, big mother of pearl inlays and I'd like to try a neck angle. I also don't care to much about the tremolo bar. It has a the short 24 3/4" scale and jumbo frets. 1 3/4" nut. I was thinking about going with the gibson bridge but it only comes in 12" radius. I kinda like the 16" radius. It also has the strat style body so I don't know how it would look with a gibson bridge. I'm not too partial on fender bridges. I'm also thinking of only going with one humbucker. I kinda like the idea of doing most of it with hand tools, planes, is that crazy ? Should I start a new thread since this guitar I really like is completely different from a 59 les paul ?

OK, is there a list somewhere or should we create a faq that says a Gibson fixed bridge requires a 4 1/2 degree angle. A strat fixed bridge requires no angle. Is it different on every guitar depending on final fretboard and fret height ? Should the fretboard be a different final height above different bridges ? Do you calculate your best before you start and some guitars turn out better than others. Meaning they are all close but you won't be perfect every time.

I'm thinking about getting a set of 1959 les paul router templates. I was wondering if anyone could explain to me how to use the templates to get the proper neck angle. I'm am talking about the neck pocket, really any information fitting the neck to body would be helpful. What is the body thickness ? Anyone have a good website for dimensions ? Thanks, Rod