matador34

Oh oops yes, I did mean bridge Yeah I think I'll go for a hardtail! Cheers for the adivce!

Hi guys, So sorry for not taking the time to answer these, I've ben vert busy with work and haven't had any time to work on the project! Thank you so much for the subsequent replies though. From your advice, I think I'm going to simplify my task and just go for a strat style pickup, this is my first guitar project so I don't want to complicate it too much! I'll come back to you guys when I've had the chance to do some more work on the project and give you all a little update!

Hi guys, Thanks so much for all the helpful and kind comments. It think I will do what you guys have suggested and glue a piece of veneer into the neck pocket to get the right fit (I'll glue a piece on each side to get the neck well centred). I'm going to continue layering up the neck joint to get it to the right height. It might be at a slight angle so I'll see whether I need to do some sanding/planing to get the fretboard at 0° to the body. In terms of the bridge I'm thinking of I was thinking of either a wraparound or a strat style bridge, for which I am under the impression there is no need for a neck angle? That's why I wanted to get the fretboard lower to have the bottom of the fretboard level with the surface of the body. Please do correct me if that is the wrong thing to do! Cheers again for all your help guys, I'll keep you all updated when there's some progress (might not be for a few days!)

Good evening people, I'm very new here so forgive if I break any forum rules, but I will try not to! I've been working on my first guitar build, a PRS style guitar for which I've got the neck and the body that I bought online with the idea of playing around with the staining the body and finishing it. However... It turned out the part of the neck that fits into the neck pocket (please do enlighten me if it has a name) was too thick and the fretboard was too high above the surface of the body. I decided to try and make it thinner by sawing at it and unfortunately made it too thin. I then got some some thin shims and started to glued them onto the neck to bring the fretboard to the right height, which I'm still in the process of doing. However number 2.... It turns out the neck pocket on the body is too wide for the neck as well!!! I am thinking of getting some more shims to patch up the missing width but I wondered whether anyone had any advice on what to do with this and would be so grateful for any tips! I also wondered about getting a piece of timber (I'm pretty sure the body is maple) and trying to carve it to the right shape to fill in the gap. As you can see it's not the best stuff that I bought, seeing as they don't fit together, but I'd really like to salvage something out of it! I've attached some pictures for you guys to see the issue. Cheers