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Comment by Dan Sleep on May 9, 2016 at 3:40am

Here is a video I did a while back, it might help you.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/basic-neck-layout

Comment by Fomhorach on May 7, 2016 at 6:07pm

Yeah. Playing slide on it won't matter about the fret spacing being wrong. It might put you off visually. You might want to follow what you can see. 

Is there no way to shift the bridge?

Here's a little tip to counteract the visual confusion. Take a black perminant marker pen and draw a line across the strings themselves after its been tuned. And follow the pen markings for note placement. Not ideal but anything might help. 

Also, instead of shifting the bridge back 2" could you shift the neck away from the guitar 2"? Is there no way to cut it in the middle inside the box and put a 2" brace on it? It might look a bit ugly but just don't open the box :)