Guitar repair tutorial - How to shim your guitar neck and nut

Ben, at Crimson Guitars in the UK, http://www.crimsonguitars.com, shows how to repair a kit guitar by putting a shim underneath the neck and another under the nut. He discusses whether or not this is a good idea and the history of 'shimming'.

Here are the times when Ben speaks about different things:
1:08 - The background of shimming in the Fender franchise
2:44 - Looking at the guitar
3:15 - Tutorial begins
4:02 - We find out what's wrong with the nut
5:36 - Marking out veneer for the shim
6:21 - Tidying up the shim
9:44 - Creating the angle of the shim using a plane
9:59 - Creating the angle of the shim using a file
10:10 - Creating the angle of the shim using a levelling beam
13:10 - Drilling the holes in the shim
15:17 - Taking off the nut
16:52 - How to shim a nut
20:36 - Gluing the shimmed nut onto the neck
20:50 - Putting the guitar back together
22:12 - Taking a look at the once we're done shimming it
22:29 - Putting strings on the guitar
24:44 - Adjusting the bridge to get more height on the strings
25:18 - Using the understring radius gauge to find the radius
25:59 - Checking how level the frets are using the Crimson Guitars fret rocker
27:51 - Adjusting the height of our newly shimmed nut using the Crimson Guitars nut slotting file
29:18 - Accurately testing the action of the nut

If you have any questions about this repair or any other repair you are undertaking, or have any suggestions to improve this repair, please leave a comment below.

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