I've been putting together this Jazz bass project and it's coming out really nice. I put a new neck on the bass the other night and this is what I ended up with. I lined up the strings over the pickup poles and drilled neck holes. Now the strings are perfectly aligned with the poles, BUT the neck isn't sitting so beautifully in the neck pocket. AT first I said to myself "who cares what it looks like? It's lined up perfectly and plays well!" But the aesthetics are starting to bother me. You'll notice that I am using a Schaller Roller bridge and the E string saddle is rolled almost entirely to the left, so if I straightened the neck, I think it'd be hard to get a good alignment of strings/pickups. Anyway, what would YOU do? Leave it? Re-drill the neck? Move the bridge?
No biggie, it looks like you just didn't use the right neck and body combination for a good aesthetic fit. BTW the bridge pickup looks like it isn't centered in the routing. THese things happen.
If it works, it works.
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Wow, you're right, I didn't notice, They're Fender USA pickups and I just went with the original SX holes. Looks like if I moved it it would make the neck even farther off.
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Yeah, just play it. Maybe build yourself another body sometime, if you know any woodworkers or have the tools. A tight neck pocket probably helps the sound, but you can't fix what you've got.
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