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Thanks for the input and what you say about resting the straight edge on the fret instead of the nut makes sense, I was thinking when the strings are in the string groves that will drop the clearance half of the nuts height and yes the possibility or should I say the likelihood of the neck bending will make quite a bit of difference. I added a small amount of thickness (0.5mm) to the two wooden washers under the bridge to help in compensation to the bridge were it will be just a hair lower if needed. It will be a non traditional tele in the sense that it will be a clean faced top no pick guard just a three way switch and four control knobs. I still am working on figuring the neck height that will be needed in the neck pocket but from your input I feel that that setting the straight edge on all the frets would be the best. I can always adjust the nut if needed to a small degree. Cheers

Hi all, I have a qestion on how to achieve a darn close brake neck angle. I am building a Thin line style Telecaster and instead of using the standard bridge that are found on the Telecasters I and looking at using a Tune-O-Matic style instead. I have never used a TOM bridge on a flat top tele before so finding the correct neck angle is somewhat new to me. I am using a way to find the neck angle from what looks to be a simple way but there was no real information on the web on a few items. Steps are to place the template on a raised surface were it will be stable, place the bridge to be used in the location were it will be mounted as on the guitars body, using spacers to act as the height of the bridge posts mounts, set the neck to be used in the templates cut out for the neck, set the neck up so it can be raised and lowered and angled at the head stock, using a straight edge along the neck raise or lower the neck to find the best angle over the neck frets, using a indicator for degrees find zero on the template, then set the degree finder on the heel area on top of the neck and read degrees needed to make the degree shims to be used under the template to acquire the neck angle when routing out the neck pocket. Q. One was when using this method of finding the angle with a straight edge and the neck to be used and the guitars template as shown in the picture, does one lay the ruler on top of the guitars neck nut and lay the other end on the top of the TOM highest saddle leaving a small but even gap above all the frets from top nut to bridge, or should the straight edge be set on the first fret and then set the other end on top of the highest pat of the bridge? That was the qestion on the nut or on the fret? This was the simplest way I found but I am open to suggestions. Thanks