Adjusting Guitar Neck Angle

Adjusting the neck angle on a bolt-on neck guitar is pretty simple. All you need is a shim and a screwdriver.

Get your shims here:

[scowell]

These shims are great for bypassing Fender Micro-Tilt on their newer 4-bolt guitars. Your guitar will have better resonance and fewer dead spots when using shims instead of the micro-tilt. Get all three so you know you'll have the right combo. Raising the bridge pieces on a Strat will also give your vibrato bar more throw.

[BurninSven]

If you cannot get the wooden shims a card will work. You can get a deck of cards very cheap and a card is made out of paper which is made out of wood. What you do is you make a wedge out of bits of the cards to make the shim and punch four holes in them for the screws. The cards normally are very stiff and hard so they will let the vibrations through to and back from the guitar body

[Davidthestratman]

I would for a final tighten run start with the bottom 2 or the 2 closer to the bridge. This will help ensure your neck is snug as possible to the bottom of the pocket giving you the best possible sustain and other problems down the road lol. Then finish by tightening the last two

[Glicksman]

When I remove the neck on my Fenders, I leave the screws in the plate and remove it that way. This way I don't accidently switch the screws positions.

[charleskleesattel]

These same shims are available from other sources (can you say Amazon?) for a remarkably lower price than from StewMac.

[dannydangelo]

I'm confused ( 3:20 of video) Don't understand how much is being added as it seems to be to be quite alot .

[IndependenceGuitar]

Man, don’t love those comments from MUSIC and LOGAN? 😂 oooo they get on my nerves so bad! Anyway, i was just telling someone yesterday this is why i prefer bolt ones. Something goes wrong with the angle or even the wood itself, a shim can save the whole damn ship.

[rchydrozz]

I would make sure these are what you need. Many times the can just add to the problem.

[TheUlesifah]

Have you ever come across the opposite problem? I just put a fender neck on my classic vibe take and my D and G strings are choking out and my saddles are basically maxed out… any advice? Maybe try a different thicker bridge or bigger saddles ?

[donjoseph]

Sometimes you need a reverse shim though

[jesterraj]

how bout the opposite the 22fret is a big space between string and frets....how do u soilve this?

[davespin]

I found these Stedman shims and bought the 1° Your trigonometry showed me I bought the wrong shim. I installed a Gotoh Floyd on my Kramer Baretta and probably only needed the .25° ☹

[Wickedsensations]

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[Wickedsensations]

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