Video: How to Make a Guitar Neck Shim

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When adjusting the angle of a guitar neck sometimes you must make a shim to wedge under the neck. Learn how you can easily do this in this free video clip.

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So we've determined that the best, that we need a couple of a hundredths of an inch of extra thickness in order to tilt the angle back. That's about the same thickness as a credit card. So let's go ahead and use a card, a plastic card, to create our shim. That probably will do quite well. So I'm going to place the shim at the position in the neck where it will do the most good in order to help tilt it a little bit back this way. And then we'll put it back together. Once it's back together, we'll again test the angle and, if it's enough to have made a significant difference, we're done with that step. And, if it's not, we may have to take it back again and make a second shim or a second layer until we get it until it's perfectly level and the distance above the strings is pretty even across the whole length of the fret board.

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How to Make a Guitar Neck Shim

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