Small gap at heel normal..?

Coming from set-neck guitars, I’ve always heard bolt ons should have a precision fit neck joint/pocket with no gap. I’m looking at buying a stingray HT and asked the seller to send some neck pocket pics, and everything looks good and snug on the sides and most of the way up the back, but there seems to be a very small gap at the top of the heel as the neck exits the pocket. It almost looks like the pocket tapers away from the neck ever so slightly. I’m talking like 1mm. Is this normal? Maybe…

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