Quick photo and update on this long-ago project.
I bought a neck from Warmoth, and it seems like a good one. Now that it's on the body, the not-Fender-icity of it isn't particularly bothersome to me. Got a Fender Tele bridge plate from someone called Bridge Works, saddles are brass Gotoh compensated from StewMac (along with a lot of other hardware). The electronics are a "modded Eldred" setup from Tym Guitars in Brisbane. Lollar pickup as mentioned above.
I need to do some drilling on the headstock for tuners and tree, and somehow I ended up with one too few pickguard screws. I won't know if the neck mounting geometry is right until I can get strings on it... but the neck plate is wonky, so I'm vaguely concerned. The plate is a cheap one and the holes don't look perfectly equidistant from the edges of it, so I'm hoping that's the issue, and not the mounting holes in the body.
Domestic life demands 99.9% of my time, so it's frustrating how slowly I get work done on my instruments. That's how it goes.
