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Welcome, Mody!
I'm glad it worked out beautifully.
I would much rather see a fellow spend the extra money on the neck, than on the body. Save money by using Keystone pickups from Bill and Becky Lawrence; this sort of thing. But there's one element I did not emphasize and I wish I had earlier. The actually fitting of the neck to the body, to permit a really sweet setup, remains crucial even if $ 1,000 were spent on the neck.
I would always recommend more, not less time, effort, pain, money into the neck and less into the body - but you still gotta get the neck mating properly into the neck pocket and the bridge assembly has to be right. From a playability, sound and function standpoint, a lot of what remains of the "body" end of the guitar after those elements are done right is almost fluff. Meanhwile, the only part of the entire neck that is not crucial is the headstock shape - and yet in many cases the only aspect of the neck that gets anal attention is A) The nut, and B) Shaping the headstock.
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