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Bridge Doctor, or no?
My trusty Taylor 114e (Sapele, 2007) is just beginning to show some belly.
I have a Bridge Doctor (in another guitar that I'm giving up on because what that really needs is a neck reset which is beyond my skills; I live in Nigeria and there are no luthiers). Should I just go ahead and install in the Taylor? I value the guitar enough to pay a luthier if there is a better solution. TIA!
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Please dont use bridge doctor.
If no luthiers are available send an email to taylor, they sometimes subject to your situation send replacement shims, taylors aftermarket service is IMO second to no one Steve
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My experience with the Bridge Dr in the past is not good. I would say try for a proper fix.
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A bit of belly is perfectly normal. How much are we talking about here?
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A small belly is not an issue...
...with guitars at least!
Unless playability is being compromised I’d simply leave things alone. If it is, then I wouldn’t use a Bridge Doctor, the design will certainly stabilise the guitar and stop the bridge rotating forward, but will almost certainly alter (damage?) the tone. As mentioned already, Taylor guitars with the NT neck joint have an easy to adjust neck/body geometry. Neck resets can be done quickly and relatively inexpensively. Not sure what you can do if there’s not a Taylor authorised repair person available. Presumably anyone with the knowledge and laser cut shims could do this job? |
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Enough that because adjusting the truss rod was no longer adequate, I ignorantly shaved the saddle about 3mm, and lost volume, which I did not know would be a consequence.
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Taylor 114e, Little Martin LX-1, Cordoba 20TM-CE Tenor Uke, Oscar Schmidt OU2 Soprano My (old) tunes |
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I've had this guitar since 2009 and it's really been great and deserves some professional TLC, I think.
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Both the neck extension and heel shim are tapered from one end to the other, you could cnc manufacture them
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Ive never though there was anything good about using a bridge doctor.
I'm somewhat amazed anybody uses them
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question - when you say 'you've lost volume' are you speaking about acoustic volume, or electrified ( pickup) volume? These are two quite different things to correct.
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posted a link but I need to fix it first will be back with some instrctions on making shims
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What were you trying to accomplish by adjusting the truss rod?
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The loss in volume is acoustic.
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Taylor 114e, Little Martin LX-1, Cordoba 20TM-CE Tenor Uke, Oscar Schmidt OU2 Soprano My (old) tunes |