Routing

Well, I've got my Dremel Plunge router attachment, although now I am kind of wishing I'd bought a Skil router instead. For what I'm doing it probably doesn't matter.  Unfortunately, still don't have the cheapo body I bought for experimenting, so I won't able to do anything until next weekend.  Anyway, I don't have the neck yet anyway.

I found a nice page at the Rockler site that explains what some of the different router bits do.  It seems that for my very specific task, I might be most correct using a rabbeting bit, but it also seems as though I'll be fine with my "plain" router bit.

The Plan

1. Rout area beneath the trem posts
2. Glue in mulberry block
3. Cover with wood filler and blacken with a sharpie
4. Put neck on, securing with clamp if holes not drilled or not aligned
5. Put trem in place
6. Put on high and low E strings to help with positioning
7. After tons of measuring, mark holes for trem posts
• Idea: put pickguard on and use that for a sanity check on location of posts
8.  Drill holes using rockler thing
9. Insert posts
1. Need rubber hammer?
2. Glue in with epoxy or CA?
10. Drill neck holes if needed

Crap

I need to buy some more stuff

• neck plate and screws
• strap buttons
• Volume/Tone/Blend knobs
• string tree