I've gotten a little more done.
Got my holes drilled for the tuners.
Heel cap put on and bolted the neck to the body.
Made a jig so I could string up the guitar and check the bridge placement for intonation. (saw a Stew-Mac video on this) Really worked well! Glad I tried this because where I had the bridge wasn't perfect.
Guitar sounded pretty good but cant really tell for sure because I'm sure that home made "tailpiece" wasn't letting the top respond properly. That's my theory anyway.
Those Grover Roto-matics gotta go, Way to heavy. Going with the Grover Sta-tites 18:1 and will now have to buy 10mm adapter bushings so I can use them. I Should have listened to start with.
Think I'm going to have to work on the part of the neck where I glued a shim under the front of the fret board which lays down on the body. With the strings in tune the front of the fret board points upward. I have to drill a hole in the headstock plate so I can adjust the truss rod and see if that helps before I go to the trouble of attempting to get rid of the shim.
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