tonyturley
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I bolted the rough cut neck on my baritone ukulele body yesterday to check alignment. Apparently, despite using a body mold, the heel face of the body is not perfectly square to the centerline. The neck fits tightly, and the plane of the fretboard is flat, as I expected. However, when I run a long ruler along the fretboard centerline, it is not perfectly aligned. Sighting down the neck toward the soundhole, I cannot detect the discrepancy, but it's there.
I would leave it, but it's going to make my bridge out of square with the bridge plate. Besides just living with it, I see two other options:
1. Floss the neck heel, but that will make the 14th fret not square with the body join, and that would bug me to no end.
2. Sand the mating surface of the body to bring the neck into alignment, but that seems fraught with the possibility of really messing up.
Any thoughts or suggestions out there? Stuff like this drives me crazy. I never can seem to get through a build without some sort of error.
I would leave it, but it's going to make my bridge out of square with the bridge plate. Besides just living with it, I see two other options:
1. Floss the neck heel, but that will make the 14th fret not square with the body join, and that would bug me to no end.
2. Sand the mating surface of the body to bring the neck into alignment, but that seems fraught with the possibility of really messing up.
Any thoughts or suggestions out there? Stuff like this drives me crazy. I never can seem to get through a build without some sort of error.