The neckless body heads into the finish room, where it gets its first base-coats of polyurethane and lacquer. Before the final sand and buff, the body goes back to the body room for the neck to be set. As subtle as the difference might seem, if the neck had been applied before the finish it would sit off the top by a wholly unacceptable 5,000th of an inch.
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