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Stormhead

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  1. Thanks folks! Your words of advice are not only informative, but encouraging. I'll try those things and down the line when I get time, I'll see it through and post pics of my progress. Thanks again!
  2. HOWDY! I'm doing a "Parts-Caster" build project. I have a non-factory Telecaster body, a Warmoth Telecaster neck, and all the custom hardware to slap on it. I can post pics of the progress if anyone cares. I am a novice when it comes to basic Luthiery. So i need some advice from experienced woodworkers/luthiers. I want to know what your approach would be. I have MY own ideas about how to proceed, but I am so aprehensive about executing any of my plans because I paid so much money for the Warmoth neck. And the body wasn't exactly cheap either. Before I describe my predicament, here are the basic specs of what I am working with... SPECS: *Body is chambered and was built from a standard Telecaster template by some random guy in his garage. The neck pocket already has mounting screw holes for mounting neck. Top wood is padouk and body bottom wood is mahogany. *Neck is all Padouk wood (neck and fretboard), made by Warmoth. neck heel dimensions are standard Telecaster specs and scale length, but there are no mounting holes to mount it into neck pocket. I can give the full custom specs I ordered if anyone is interested, but they are not relevant to this particular step of mating the neck heel with the neck pocket. *The bridge is a Stetsbar Pro II Telecaster Flat-Mount style tremolo bridge. This bridge drops in to replace a factory hard-tail Telecaster bridge plate. No routing or drilling is required. *The nut is a Floyd Rose R2 nut. Warmoth already routed the nut shelf into headstock, so it is ready to go. THE PREDICAMENT: So before I drill those holes into the neck (using the body's existing mounting holes), I need to know 2 things: 1) Do I need to install a shim to create a back angle on the neck? I may have to do this because I the Stetsbar Pro II Telecaster flat-mount tremolo style bridge has a significantly higher saddle height than a factory standard hardtail Telecaster flat-mount bridge. Stetsbar includes a little wooden neck shim with their bridges because they anticipate many customers having higher saddle heights after they replace the factory bridges with Stetsbar ones. I need to determine if the angle/shim is needed BEFORE I drill the mounting holes into the neck heel (because I will be using the holes that are already drilled into the body's neck pocket as my guide holes). If I were to go ahead and drill the holes into the neck first before figuring out this stuff, then I would be in deep shit if it turns out I need a shim/angle because tilting the neck at any angle would cause the neck holes to no-longer be parallel/in-line with the body neck pocket holes. 2) The guy who built the body made the neck pocket just a nut-hair too wide, so the neck has like 1mm of wiggle room and is not a true snug fit. So I need to shim the side walls of the neck pocket somehow. I imagine this would involve filling in the thin gaps with a shim or an enamel/Bondo type filling on either the left or right (or both) sides of neck tenon, depending on where my bridge/nut centerline is. I must accomplish this BEFORE drilling the neck mounting holes, so that they align with the body's existing mounting holes while also maintaining relative symmetry (symetry of the neck width) to the bridge/nut centerline. Also, let me know if anyone has drilling/sanding tips for Padouk wood. It is extremely dense heavy wood. I am worried about cracking it, but I also have zero experience with it. Should I use some type of grease in my drilling holes to aid with drilling and inserting the screws (so as to lubricate and prevent cracking)? 📽🎞here is a video I made showing what I am working with and describing my problem, I case you dont feel like reading all this: https://youtu.be/nSWyRNL6wcw I appreciate any advice. Thanks!!
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