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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Here we have another Taylor GS Mini in for an action setting (or 'neck reset' technically-speaking). This is one guitar where 'neck reset' isn't a daunting, expensive process - it's a matter of removing the neck, fitting the required pair of shims to re-align the neck to where it needs to be and re-fitting the neck. Very clever.
The secret of the Taylor system is that it keeps the neck heel and the fingerboard extension in a 90º angle to each other and pivots that 90º around a point at the front edge of the guitar body - as my sketch on the whiteboard shows. I've seen people do 'neck resets' where they haven't retained this 90º - causing a hump in the neck where the fingerboard extension meets the rest of the neck. I've even seen people take off a Taylor neck, sand down the heel shim and then ignore the fingerboard extension shim altogether. Sure fire way to introduce a hump or change of direction in the neck.
Thanks to the Taylor system this reset was very straightforward. I had already determined and fitted the correct shim pair at home to give the correction I was after; this video shows me working on the nut and the saddle to get things to exactly where I wanted them.
Can't believe I actually watched this from start to finish while washing the dishes, doing my laundry, and cooking dinner.
I am currently having my gs mini setup and while waiting I thought I'd look on youtube to see how it's done.
Enjoyed your stories. Thank you
You’re welcome :)
I just received 2 guitar's. One very cheap Mitchell qnd one very expensive Taylor k26ce. I got the Mitchell to learn on and it has similar issue's. I wonder, I have to replace a few frets. I realized thatthe new ones are slightly wider. Taylor has weak fretwire in this guitar. Can I do a partial refret with the slightly wider frets or should I just do thr whole board? Ive read as it gets used that wideness will hurt the intonation and make it sharper. The first 6 are basically toast. Love the video's cause ypu really teach. I shared your idea with a friend and he liked ot a lot. I did the banana on my SE strat and it has the lowest action I've ever seen now. It did itneck off and it still worked quite well.
Hi Ranman - don't worry; wider frets make zero difference to intonation because the intonation point is the same i.e. at the very top (centre) of the fret, regardless of how wide it extends either side. It's only a problem if you flatten the fret - in which case the 'intonation point' moves to the bridge-side of the fret mid-point. That has a small impact on intonation. I've never done a partial re-fret; for the reason that if I did, I would still have to level the new frets down to the height of the old ones anyway so I might as well start them all off and enjoy new, tall frets. And the cost difference between 6 and 22 frets is relatively little anyway :) Thanks for your kind feedback -- glad there's something useful for you in my videos.
Hi, friend!! I congratulate the work you do with each instrument, putting dedication and love!!
Could you tell me what gauge of strings you put on them?
Greetings from Argentina!!
Hi Pablo - one this guitar it was a set of 13-56 specified by the customer. My personal preference is 10-47 or 11-52
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars thanks for the reply! I never knew what string my guitar came with when I bought it. Now I have to change the strings and I bought 10-47 but I'm afraid it will affect its original sound. Greetings from Argentina!!
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