Jagcaster !?!

I have been a gibson player for 20 years. I got my first fender (well fender scale that is) about a year ago. I bought a start from a guy at work. I fell in love with it. I have been a big fan of players that have been tele guys. So I got my first tele. WOW, I haven't loked back yet. My poor Gibsons just live in their cases now. I have built up two different teles now. My main guitar is a MIM that I esquired (pulled the neck pickup out and wired in a SD hotrail wired up Series/Split/Parallel) and just for fun made a fretless tele (fun for riffing).
Ok long story short .... I did have a fender once before but I never considered it a fender because of the short scale. It was a 66 Jaguar. A long time ago back in my punkband days I was knocked off stage and broke the body (being a stupid kid I took the neck off and tossed the body, sold off the electronics).

What I want to do is made my own tele body from scratch and use the Jag neck on it. I have been lurking here and reading as much as I can and heve some good ideas and plans for the body. Here is my big question. How to I space the bridge correctly to use the Jag neck (on a 24" scale)?????

I heard but not sure if true. Measure from the nut to the 12th fret, the from the 12th fret to bridge saddles and that should give you the correct scale to intinate. Is that right???

That would be correctomundo, but since you know that 24" is the scale you can just put the bridge so that the big E saddle is 24" from the nut. Good luck!

Actually, it should be the high E saddle that should be 24" from the nut, not the big/low E (which should have a scale of a bit more than 24" if the intonation is set correctly...)

I think you should go to the shops and play a couple of 24" scale guitars.

Find out if that's what you're craving.

Once a guitar gets down to 24.75, I think I am just as happy with a Gypsum guitar.

25.5 is what makes Fender designs special.