In this video I show the process of doing a neck reset on a bolt-on style Taylor guitar. Music provided by Mark Lavey www.marklavey.com Instagram @marklaveyguitarist
It sucks you have to do this for a brand new guitar. Which is my situation. I like that it's a bolt on and easy to do, however, I don't like having to take it to a repair shop to have done. When I checked with the straight edge, the neck angle was too low and not slightly above the bridge, it was below the top of the bridge by ≈ 1/16". For a new guitar from the factory I find this unacceptable. It's a hassle for the consumer seeing how my Taylor repair shop is relatively far away and a pain to get to. Most likely won't buy another Taylor.
Have a guitar (also taylor) with the same problem with an even worse angle. Pretty disapointed in that and it doesnt say a lot of good if a guitar needs a reset earlier than about 15 years into its life, let alone within 1 year. Makes me wonder how solid the neckblock is
Question: I can't seem to find any comments or vids on RU-vid to describe how tight I should make the neck bolts when replacing the neck. How tight do you go? Just so they are "snug"?
Thanks for the tutorial, one thing was not clear, the original shims you removed were 6 & 12 leaving you with 6 points difference?, so you wanted to maintain the 6 points difference (because that is what Taylor had figured out) and you went to 10 & 16, so you increased both the neck shims and heel? doing this, pushed the fret board up toward the strings and angled the headstock inward toward the player? Please advise.
Thank you for explaining the shim system and how you determine which to use. Great idea adding lock washers to the bolts, they're called internal tooth star lock washers for anybody looking for them on Amazon or elsewhere. ( I'd recommend getting stainless steel ones. )
I understand you’re supposed to measure the height of the string by holding the guitar in the playing position to get a more accurate reading. When the guitar is laying down, gravity will pull them down a bit.
Taylor Guitars distributor/dealer here in the Philippines sells the shims for P500, even though you bought the Guitar from them, I emailed Taylor Guitars US on this and they told us to contact the local distributor, how unfortunate for us
Thanks. I checked the measurement from top of the fret to the bottom of the string on my Taylor 110e and it is about 3/16" . I think the strings look too high, but that isn't bad is it? I was ready to reset the neck to bring the action closer. Is 3/16" a lot?
