Jazz bass neck holes don't quite align with Jazz body holes... What to do?

[rwillett]

So I've made a tool to hold everything safe, secure and flat. It's now adjustable and is designed for 9.25" radius necks. Its easy enough to make it for flatter or rounder necks. I can move and adust the position of everything to keep it balanced.

 

I've made it so it fits a guitar neck as well, so there's two clamps on the drill. This is a broken Squier neck from something. It appears that somebody drilled through the neck and out through the fretboard (wasn't me). Using this as a test to learn from. 

 

 

This is the 5mm drill and the laser guidance. I know the depth is 18mm as I already tested it.

 

 

First 5mm dowel

 

 

And all four done

 

 

The lesson to learn here is don;t make the dowels too short

 

First drills done.

 

 

Drill, glued and inserted.

 

 

Now we leave it for 24 hours to dry.

 

I'll probably cut the dowels with a Dremel and then file down the tops by hand (carefully).

 

Rob