So its been a week or so since I've been able to do anything with this project. To keep myself occupied I started working on another project, but I'll get to that another time.....
I'm glad this project is back on track! The die that my dad sent me came today, so I threaded both ends of my steel rod, screwed the anchor onto one end, and peaned the end of the rod so it can't come off the anchor.
The anchor and rod fits into the neck nice and tight!
After fitting the truss rod into the neck, and glued in a mahogany filler strip. Now time to wait for the glue to dry and I'll be able to move on to fitting the neck to the body and establishing the neck angle.