Bleh

My new sustain block arrived, and it was indeed the right one!   I promptly ignored all my plans, as described here, and started hacking away.  The result is that the guitar is once again fully assembled, but without shielding or the new black pickup covers.  I say "fully assembled", but that's not really right.  The Tremel No is not fully installed, and much more importantly, I really think the neck is sitting too high in the pocket.  The saddles are almost as high as they can go,  and it just seems wrong to me.  I fear that the right thing to do is to "shave" the neck, and it seems (insert ref) that the mighty mite necks may have a problem that requires this.    I have a real horror of anything that involves woodworking - even drilling holes for the tuners terrified me.  Maybe I just have to get over it.

Later today I'll post a question on strat-talk, and I may disassemble it and do some measurements of the neck and neck pocket and compare them to the dimensions given on the Warmoth site (see the link under "Diagrams" here). 

JB JR

I also expect my JB JR to arrive today or Monday at the latest.  It's a bit of a risk to install the pickup so close to the time of the gig, but I think I can handle it.  I may skip the push/pull coil tap at first, though it really seems quite easy.