This is an action tweak (and nut replacement) on a brand new Taylor GS Mini e Plus Koa acoustic. I'm a big fan of Taylor guitars partly because of the sound and the quality, partly because of their brilliant bolt-on neck + reciprocal shim pair system that allows their necks to be reset periodically and the action to be set precisely with a fraction of the misery of trying to do the same on a traditional glued-in neck joint.
So even for a tiny action improvement from brand new (which is what I'm doing here) we still use the neck shim system; that's its beauty. Whether it's fixing a rising action after 15 years of slow structural deformation (happens to almost ALL acoustic guitars) or just shaving a half mm from the playing action from the 'get-go' this bolt-on neck and shim system is the way to do it.
You'll see me hit a snag with the nut replacement - a tiny bit of cleaning up detritus in the nut slot AFTER I thought I'd reached my perfect 1st fret action saw the nut needing a slight lift. I prefer not to shim with loose materials in a nut slot so my chosen approach is to glue on some scrap Tusq to the bottom of the nut and work it back to the correct height - and probably finish off with using the Hosco files to perfection. This added some time to this set up - so be prepared for a long and fairly uneventful (and uncommunicative!) process as I boost up the nut (only short by about 1/10th mm!) and work it back to where I needed it to be. Apologies for how dreary it is!
On the plus side, Rich was absolutely thrilled with how his new GS Mini plays and sounds. So the fiddly work was worth it :)
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