1) Clamped the neck to the body and ran both e-strings and got them taught.
2) Maneuvered the neck in the clamp until the strings were even over the pickup poles and in from the edges of the of the fretboard.
3) Screwed the supplied screws through the body holes into the neck to mark positions.
4) Using a drill press drilled new holes in 2 passes, with a 1/16" bit and then 5/32". I was pretty concerned about the one edge of neck because the holes were very close, but it worked ok
5) Bolt the neck on using the coarse screws, just needed a T-driver, not a screw gun to get them in
6) Put the e-strings back on and everything lined up again perfect!
I even plugged it into an amp and got sound and not a ridiculous amount of hum, so that seems to be good as well.
Impressions and next steps:
There is too much gap around the neck in the pocket. I'll be adding some veneer in the pocket to tighten that up hopefully, though it might need more than 1 layer and that doesn't seem like fun.
Now that the neck is in and I can hold it in the body it definitely feels like the "too thick" strat necks that I never loved, but the fretboard is nice and flat unlike most on strats I have played, and that's the more important part to me. Up at the nut it also doesn't feel overly tight between the strings.
The grooves are cut very low on a cursory check. The action is low already. This of course will all change when I actually get into the setup, but i don't think i'm going to have a lot of meat to file down the nut if necessary.
No pictures of the procedure as I left the camera at work, but I don't think drill presses are really that exciting.
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