Screwed

So as seen in previous posts the body has a contoured heel ... but the neck screws are all the same length, and when you put them in THIS happens:

As you can see the left rear screw protrudes the required 5/8" ... the others ... more. The right front screw is too long by 5/16" ... get out the hacksaw ... well after trying to use the jigsaw with a metal cutting blade ... not sure what was going on but that didn't make much of an impression on the screw I tried it on.

I drilled some holes in a scrap piece of 1/4" ... something ... and screwed in the screws till the protuded just about a much as needed to be cut ...

And then proceeded with elbow grease and the hacksaw - INITIAL measurements can be seen on the wood, turned out that was to little and two of the screws made another trip through - REMEMBER on custom thingies like these (they are Gotoh cosmo black to match the neck plate) measure twice - at least -, cut once; AND cutting long and you can shorten later, cutting short and ... well ... $&#*((#@ sums it up I think ... ... the metal cutting blade in the jigsaw barely made an impression but the hacksaw blade was made of somewhat sterner stuff ... although one end still got chipped ... Note To Self: get a new blade ...

That looks more like it, I don't know if it matters but the tops of the cut screws were deburred using a bastard file and now the are all 5/8" over the neck pocket.All the cut screws went in very smoothly, it was the screw that wasn't cut down that squealed and squeaked ... go figure ...

And here is the result ....

Now we need something to go into and cover those holes ... ... ... working on it ... ... ...

Still have to figure how that will go together but I found that I need about 6" of width and it doesn't matter if its straight back to front or at an angle .... need to check the required length in both cases though ... and where the screws would end up ...