That was quick!
FWIW, I had purchased a set of non-angled shims. Very annoying.
That was quick!
FWIW, I had purchased a set of non-angled shims. Very annoying.
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The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Amazon is good for some things ;-)Originally Posted by Trevor Davies
I had seen enough complaints about shims that were not tapered that I figured it might be worth posting the brand name of some cheap ones that were. $10 would be too much for non-angled shims, but fine for what I got. Stewies are over $35 which seems like way too much even if they are perfect...and actually nailing an exact angle of 1 degree or less in a shim would be asking kind of a lot.
I have been doing a little more thinking about this, and I think the most important thing, is that you get shims with three different tapers, if you're going to purchase them. The taper itself may not matter so much as long as they're different from each other. Even though the angles on the ones that I got are a little smaller than advertised, they still give a lot of options. It gives me seven different increments, depending on how they are stacked, between 0.18-1.28.
I ended up stacking 2 shims, and could have gone up by 2 more increments If I had need to, or down 4 if I had need to go that way.
I think I probably could have made shims from veneer that would have done roughly the same thing, but it would most likely have taken me a couple of tries to get it shimmed to the right angle. I tried calculating the angle I needed, but I was off by a little.
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OK. It must be time to make a shim making jig! Thinking caps on.
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Scratch Builds: Pine Explorer, Axe Bass, Mr Scary, Scratchy Tele's.
The little voices in my head keep telling me "build more guitars"
Ok, you have me thinking. I like that the commercial ones are made of maple, but making them would be tricky. I once made two maple pickup rings...I can't remember how many I broke along the way...and they were considerably thicker than shims....
Although not a jig, a thought would be to make a stepped wedge out of veneer, glue a piece of veneer on the stepped side, then glue veneer to the stepped side and sand it flat.
If there were a way to do it quickly, it might make sense to make a whole bunch that are 0.25°. That way you could just stack them to get the angle you wanted.
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I am getting to like the neck on this bass, but when I get the action where I like it there is some buzz at the treble end. I am thinking about using a radius block to take the frets above the 12th down a little to see if that helps.
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