Gotoh 510 trem + 720 mod

[rauchman]

Curious is a body could be ordered with the angled heel route as found when ordering the non recessed Floyd Rose (hope I'm explaining that right) when paired with the 510?

 

[Strat Avenger]

So again I ask, why do I have a gap between the fretboard overhang and the pickguard on my latest Warmoth Strat project?  I could fit two pickguards stacked on top of each other.
The .720 mod is about 1/10 of an inch, so in this case, it would have cleared the pickguard with to  to spare. The yellow one in my picture on the left doesn't have that much of a gap.

 

[WindsurfMaui]

Street Avenger can you post a picture of the gap and also a picture from the back of the fit of the neck to the guitar?

 

[Fat Pete]

Standard spec leaves 0.125" between the face of the body and the underside of the 'board overhang, so you should be able to fit 2x 0.06" single-ply between, but not 2x 0.9" 3-ply.

Is it a Warmoth neck?

 

[gingataff]

Do you have any calipers to measure the neck pocket depth and neck thickness? An accurate ruler would probably be ok.

So again I ask, why do I have a gap between the fretboard overhang and the pickguard on my latest Warmoth Strat project?  I could fit two pickguards stacked on top of each other.
The .720 mod is about 1/10 of an inch, so in this case, it would have cleared the pickguard with to  to spare. The yellow one in my picture on the left doesn't have that much of a gap.

 

[WindsurfMaui]

this discuss happened at a perfect time. I especially want to thank Aaron for talking about fret board over hang. I received my Warmoth Strat Gibson scale quarter sawn Mahogany neck with dark Indian Rosewood fret board. After a couple of days of just admiring it and how much lighter it felt than my roasted maple/Ebony 25.5 " scale neck I started to bolt it to a Fender American Standard body which I had a Warmoth one piece Maple Vintage/Modern neck That Maple neck didn't have much of a fret board overhang but I didn't focus on that. When I bolted on the Mahogany /Rosewood I noticed that the over hang of the fret board reached all the way to the neck pickup. As I turned the neck screws all the way down this .720 conversation came to mind and I checked the gap from the body to the fretboard and I noticed that on one side it looked too tight. so I unscrewed the pickguard to see if I could slide it out easily. I couldn't so I unscrewed the neck took off the pick guard and screwed the neck back on. Then I tried to slide a piece of Pickguard under the over hand fret board and found that for whatever reason I couldn't slide the pick guard under the fret board on one side. So rather than sand the bottom of the fret board over hang or damage the finish on the body I just cut the pick guard away all the way to the pickup. That solved the problem. But if we hadn't had this conversation I likely wouldn't have even noticed. Since the old neck didn't have a problem I wouldn't have even checked to see if there was clearance and eventually the fret board may have lifted off the shaft. I now have learned when you are doing these mods you have to keep your mind focused on what unintended changes are happening.