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"Welcome to the forum. The first  advice I would like to give you is: Don't rush things. The second is: Whenever something goes wrong, take a few steps back, calm down and think through what happened and what to to to remedy the problem. These advices comes from first hand experiences  \n \nNow to your questions. I really suggest that you draw things out full scale. That will answer a few of your questions, like how to plan the neck pocket rout together with the pickup routs etc. The main difference between a 21 fret neck and a 24 fret is (obviously) the shortened distance from the end of the fretboard to the bridge. Having three HBs there might be a tad too much. Or perfect. But your full size sketch will reveal that to you. And regarding a fixed bridge vs a tremolo, my interpretation is that you are thinking of using a TOM (Tune-O-Matic) style bridge \n \nwith ferules on top of the guitars face: \n \nand with \"anchoring\" ferules \n \non the back of the guitar. Well thats a totally different beast compared with a tremolo. First off you will need to have a neck angle or elevate the neck quite a bit over the face of the guitar. I'm pretty sure that the actual drilling for bushings, pressing the bushings in, screwing the bridge in place is something you can find on youtube or similar, but you need to understand how to measure for placement and to add compensation for intonation (if you're not using a TOM with extreme intonation travel distance for the saddles). That and how to calculate the neck angle is alone well worth buying the book \"make your own electric guitar\" by Melvyn Hiscock for. That book is extremely well written and will take you through all difficult parts of this particular build. I strongly recommend that you get this (or any other good book). \n \ngood luck \n \nEDIT: Necroreaper beat me to it "
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