Rosewood Taylor Neck Shim
 

Had a customers Baby Taylor in the shop today with a neck severely out of whack. Didn't have the right neck shim so I just made one. When you don't have it, make it!

Fun project, just thought I'd share

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Nicely done!

I've always just made them too! How do you go about doing it? I set up a simple jig that would allow me to plane on an angle with my jointer plane. The last time I did it though I just double stuck tapped a shim to a flat piece of plywood and hit it with my belt sander.

Curious what "severely out of whack" means...

To me it indicates something else other than neck shims is at work. There's a reason why Taylor is very rigid about who gets shim kits.

I am authorized by Taylor.

Only reason I made one was because I didn't have the thickness I needed.

Nicely done.

I cheat, when I do not have a shim in stock, I have them pre-drawn for my cnc router, and I just punch one out on it. so no real skills involved at my end when doing one :).

Steve

You can sand it, but it takes forever to get the right angles/thicknesses. I do all my work by hand so I try not to do a huge amount of sanding.

I did the measurements for thickness. Then rip cut a piece of rosewood stock down to size. I have an extremely accurate dozuki saw (designed for kumiko work) that I rip cut at an extremely shallow angle, mini scrapers and fine cut files to get the right thickness, scrape it to a shine and you're done. No sanding involved so the dust production is only slight.

Would you be able to make me a couple of sets? How much would it set me back?