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That said, there *is* a normal position relative to the rout, which is that when the bridge is sitting flat on the body, the front face of the block should be *almost* - but not quite - touching the wall of the cavity on the pickup side. The thickness of a piece of cornflake packet would be about the right gap. You can probably use that as a guide, then check the position of the bridge relative to the frets.
Bear in mind that the bridge will pull the screws slightly forward under string tension as well, so that gap will close - but the block must not touch the cavity wall or it will bind and cause tuning problems.
You also need to have some means of drilling the screw holes truly vertical into the body, as well as in the right positions and accurate spacing - if they're misaligned or even slightly spaced differently from the holes in the bridge they can also make the bridge bind.
Hope that doesn't sound too daunting!
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