No progress Dave. I do need to get back to neck building because I've built several bodies that need necks.
You should definitely check out Bill's thread. Very interesting neck shaping jig he's developing.
I think the StewMac fret slotting miter box is actually intended to cut slots in fingerboards before they are glued to the neck. If you want to use it on a one piece Telecaster neck you need to get a long strip of 1/4 in. MDF that will fit inside the miter box. Draw a centerline down the length of the MDF. Align you neck centerline to this centerline and stick your neck to this with double sided tape. This is what you would do if you were not using the Fret Scale Template.
If you're using the Fret Scale Template with the miter box, You would align your neck centerline with a line on the template parallel to the edge of the template. The following post shows how I mounted the miter box to make a jig and shows the neck stuck to the Fret Scale Template. It also show that a Telecaster neck will fit into the miter box to saw the lower frets slots and nut slot but a Strat neck wouldn't allow that. Someone in the forum cut away the back side of their miter box to allow for a Strat headstock.
StewMac Miter Box and Fret Scale Template
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what do you use as a guide when you route for the truss rod channel,
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It didn't actually show up clearly in the pictures but I used a router edge guide that runs along the back side of the curved channel jig. I don't necessarily think that's the best way to do it. However at the time, it gave me an excuse to buy the Porter Cable micro-adjustable edge guide. Here's a better picture.
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