In this video I show the shim-based 'neck reset' of Neil's 2021 Taylor GS Mini. Before I go on, it's worth noting that this guitar is about 2.5yrs old; it left the factory in July 2021. Between then and now it has a playing action that is SO high that not even Taylor's highest shim can put it back to where I would want it and where I know my client wants it. He bought the guitar 2nd hand and was no doubt a bit shocked at how unplayable it was when he got it. As a buyer you really wouldn't expect a guitar with a 6mm low E last fret action (or 4.5mm at 12th if that's the way you prefer it). You just wouldn't expect the guitar to have deformed THAT much in 2 1/2 years since it came off the production line.
Well, it has. Taylor, to their credit, kindly provide me with a few shim sets for every guitar I contact them about and I'm pretty sure (I have emailed this evening to double check btw!) that '30' is the highest shim level they do.
Having established off-camera that this guitar needed the maximum shum lift available (and more), this video shows me removing the original shims (again) and fitting the '30' heel / '24' fingerboard extension shims. That improves things but comes nowhere near the target playing action - so because of that I set out to gain the remaining improvement via further reduction to the saddle. The whole purpose of Taylor's bolt-on neck & shim system is to make action adjustments (including neck resets) without having to lower the saddle, avoiding as a result any reduction of the break angle of strings going over the saddle. But in cases like this there is no alternative.
The end result (along with changing the nut for a new Tusq nut) is a transformation from an unplayable (shame, Taylor!) acoustic guitar to one with a fabulous low and light action at both ends.
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