I carefully cut into the sides to find the mortice in the head block:
and when I knew where I was, I trimmed the sides and top back and then cut them flush with the mortice using the router:
A little bit of work on the tenon and it fitted in pretty well. Luckily, the bolt holes seemed to line up:
I made up the brass dowel for the neck fixing once I knew the hole spacing was OK:
I printed a few sections of the plan at 100% onto overhead projector film (remember them??) which made decent templates for marking the heel shape
I cut the heel profile with the bandsaw...
...then rough-cut the end profile:
The shape of the bottom of the heel is a 'best guess' as it isn't shown on the plans
With a bit of rough carving, I could have the first look at how the neck was sitting:
Not perfect, a tad high at the bridge, but very much in the ball park.
