Needing some advice on neck support.

Howdy, folks. Hoping ya'll can help me.
I'm about to start my own, personal guitar. First one I've build specifically for me. So far, I've either sold, traded, or given away everything I've build. I've been eyeballing this beautiful box for nearly six months, and finally got my hands on it last weekend. Took my $25 coupon (thanks, Ben!) and ordered up a whole bunch of stuff to get started. I got myself the pre-wired four string pickup, and now that I have it here, I realize that I'm gonna have to cut into my stick to make it fit.
What can y'all tell me about support issues I'm gonna have? I use poplar for my neck and attach a red oak fretboard. I'll be doing a four string guitar, and I've heard that four strings is kinda the top limit for an unsupported poplar neck.
My first thought was to bolt another 1x2 to the bottom of my neck, inside the box, but don't want to overdo it either. Or would I be better off to buy a 2x2 and trim down my neck section?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've been kicking it around, but don't know what to do...
Thanks folks!

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Permalink Reply by Matt on January 22, 2014 at 11:55am

I have another question, as well...

I notice several mentions of attaching your neck to the lid of your box. I actually don't do that. I leave a couple of inches of fingerboard overlapping my lid, and since I primarily use the stick through method, the only other thing keeping the lid and stick in place is the tension on the bridge. Should I start gluing or screwing them in place?

I gotta tell ya'll, its a good thing that "there are no rules" to CBG's, because if there were, I can tell ya, I'd probably be doing everything wrong. I figured I'd try to do this after reading a couple of articles and looking at a few pictures. My first two guitars were fretted, one a three string, the other a four string, and unplayable. The third was a three string fretless, and by that point I kinda had an idea what I had done wrong with the first two, so I modified...then i fell in love with the slide, and kept that one. I think I've modified it about four times since. I learn something new with every build. I recently discovered Dirty E. I'm having fun with that one...

By the way, thank you all. I really had no idea what I was gonna do last night, but I knew ya'll could help me. Now I have a plan of action and multiple methods to pick from.