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Most people shim to get a bit more height, to match up with a bridge. You can attain the same thing by filing the neck pocket down at the front edge, while leaving the back of the pocket at the same height. This gets you the angle you need, without having to look at a shim. It is critical to mainta...

Thanks, folks. I got stuck on the old-school thought of shimming just at the back of the pocket, and figured that that would just be a bad idea... :roll: I think that would work just fine, and a little air gap in a guitar of this quality wouldn't matter (to me.) Besides it wouldn't be visible while...

Thanks, folks. I got stuck on the old-school thought of shimming just at the back of the pocket, and figured that that would just be a bad idea...

I've a question regarding shimming a bolt-on Fender-style neck. I recently bought a NOS Brownsville 12-string. It's a low-buck guitar, built a lot like a Danelectro with an outer and center frame of plywood and a top and back of Masonite or something. All in all it's an okay instrument (I bought one...