The saga continues.....headstock is ON, tuners FIT, backing plate REPOLISHED, just redid the pick guard, and replaced all of its missing pearl, and reshellacked it. Waiting for beauteous pearl nut to arrive (after all this, who wants to use micarta?) then borrow nut files from the banjo man....THEN I CAN STRING IT! 'nother couple of weeks...am on tenterhooks.