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Getting shims from Taylor is of course the best solution for a Taylor neck angle adjustment, but printed ones will work in a pinch. I’ve included the parametric design file so you can create custom sizes. To use, open Fusion 360, MODIFY – Change Parameters and change the ‘neckshimangle’ parameter value. The ‘extensionshimangle’ parameter will automatically update using the ‘neckshimangle’ parameter.
I wanted the shims to be automatically labeled with their value, so I used a parametric text Fusion 360 add-on found here:
https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=2114937992453312456&appLang=en&os=Win64
You will need to download and install this add-on if you want the shim text values to automatically update when you change the ‘neckshimangle’ parameter.
I don’t expect everyone will want to play around with parameters in the design file, so I included .stls of a few sizes – (0.25, 0.37, 0.5, 1.0).
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Hi Dave
Thanks for your work on this! Hopefully it can help us with a few long standing customers with Taylor issues.
Can you give some clarification as to how the angle system correlates to the number system Taylor uses for the shims?
hi Brent,
The angles are used to describe the difference from the top edge of a shim to the bottom edge like the StewMac shims. There is no correlation to Taylor number system, but I think of them as changing the neck angle from a Taylor neck heel shim has no difference in thickness from the top edge to the bottom edge.
Understood Dave.
Thanks for taking the time and effort to draw these up. Its been on my to do list to sketch up a set of these for a long time.
Now if only the rep at Taylor would respond to my emails about getting an “authorized set” of shims to compare measurements…
The reply edit doesn’t seem to work for me. Meant to say “Taylor neck heel shim having …”
These look great. I think Taylor shims set the extension shim to be .006 less than the heel shim to add fall away over the extension. Is that value built in to these? I determined the angle by first detemining the amount the heel would need to be reduced with a normal dovetail neck rewet (AxB/C) and then plugging that number and the heel length into an angle calculator. In my case the action was .175 and it required about .060 removal of material at the heel, so my calculation was for about a 1.1 degree shim.
The relationship of the extension shim to the neck block shim was determined empirically and is set as a parameter to be half the number of degrees of the neck block shim. I included the source .f3d file so that relationship could be changed as needed.