Adjusting Guitar Neck Angle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Adjusting the neck angle on a bolt-on neck guitar is pretty simple. All you need is a shim and a screwdriver.
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These shims are great for bypassing Fender Micro-Tilt on their newer 4-bolt guitars. Your guitar will have better resonance and fewer dead spots when using shims instead of the micro-tilt. Get all three so you know you'll have the right combo. Raising the bridge pieces on a Strat will also give your vibrato bar more throw.
I would for a final tighten run start with the bottom 2 or the 2 closer to the bridge. This will help ensure your neck is snug as possible to the bottom of the pocket giving you the best possible sustain and other problems down the road lol. Then finish by tightening the last two
Super informative. Thank you
Why not angle rout the neck pocket?
I would make sure these are what you need. Many times the can just add to the problem.
These same shims are available from other sources (can you say Amazon?) for a remarkably lower price than from StewMac.
Man, don’t love those comments from MUSIC and LOGAN? 😂 oooo they get on my nerves so bad! Anyway, i was just telling someone yesterday this is why i prefer bolt ones. Something goes wrong with the angle or even the wood itself, a shim can save the whole damn ship.
Sometimes you need a reverse shim though
Have you ever come across the opposite problem? I just put a fender neck on my classic vibe take and my D and G strings are choking out and my saddles are basically maxed out… any advice? Maybe try a different thicker bridge or bigger saddles ?
how bout the opposite the 22fret is a big space between string and frets....how do u soilve this?
If you cannot get the wooden shims a card will work. You can get a deck of cards very cheap and a card is made out of paper which is made out of wood. What you do is you make a wedge out of bits of the cards to make the shim and punch four holes in them for the screws. The cards normally are very stiff and hard so they will let the vibrations through to and back from the guitar body
Doesn't change neck angle, just raises the neck.
I found these Stedman shims and bought the 1° Your trigonometry showed me I bought the wrong shim. I installed a Gotoh Floyd on my Kramer Baretta and probably only needed the .25° ☹
Am sorry for asking you so many questions but you are the only TH-camd that answers me but I found a marshall dsl 20 watt Combo for 470$ and a marshall valvestate head for 270 if I get the valvestate I have to play 210$ for a cabinet which do you think is the best choice? The dsl or the valve state and the cabinet
No worries. The Valvestate was the last solid state amp I had before I switched to tube amps. I haven't used the DSL 20 but it looks to have the same controls as the DSL 100. I think the DSL will sound better, but the Valvestate with a cabinet might be better suited if you're playing with a full band. If you decide to go with the DSL now, you'd be able to get a cabinet for it later. A good cabinet (1960) will last you a LONG time. 20W may be pushing the limits for a full band, I'm not sure, but keep in mind, a tube amp is typically much louder than the same power solid state amp. Good luck.
Thank you I just play at my house and wanted a tube amp so thank you for helping me decide
Hey how do you feel about the Marshall mg100 hcfx head I'm thinking about buying it but a lot of people say bad stuff about the hfx but not the hcfx
I haven't used either of those heads, but I would highly recommend staying away from solid state heads. They might sound okay for now, but in my experience you'll eventually drop it for a tube amp. There are a lot of good tube amps out there. I'd recommend looking for a used Marshall DSL100 or 50. It's pretty basic but it sounds awesome. It doesn't have all the built in FX but you should be buying an amp for the amp. Trust me, a tube amp will last you a long time.
So is there a nice Marshall tube amp for under 300 buck I'm kinda broke
I'm also scared I'm gonna blow it up
You shouldn't worry about blowing up a tube amp. As long as you match the cabinet impedance with the amp output and never run the amp without it plugged into a cabinet, you should be fine.
Finding a tube amp for $300 might be tough. You're probably looking in the $600 - $700 for good used tube amps. I'd suggest buying a used solid state amp right now, so when you eventually have enough money, sell the solid state, and buy a tube amp you don't lose to much money.