To shim or not to shim Jazzmaster?
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Cheers guys, all very interesting. For now, gonna leave alone and just enjoy, see how we get on.
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Care to share where you bought this? Couldn't find it myself!
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I bought it from the seller "acousticelectricuk" on ebay :
https://www.ebay.fr/usr/acousticelectricuk
BTW the Stewmac 1° shim in question arrived and looks like this in the neck pocket :
And the height went from flush to the pickguard to this :
I still have some problems : I need some longer pickup screws because the pickups are now too far from the strings, and I still have strings choking in the higher frets. I might need to adjust the trussrod now, but it looks like I need to buy imperial-sized hex keys... The true Jazzmaster setup experience !
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Fender truss rod hex keys usually ...
1/8” allen key Fender MIA (3.175mm)
3/16” allen key Fender MIM (4.76mm)
4mm allen key Asian / metric
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Re: To shim or not to shim Jazzmaster?
Maybe not, it's possible that your weather stripping under the pick guard simply isn't pushing the pickups up. You might have to add some- it's common to.Flurko wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 12:59 pm
I still have some problems : I need some longer pickup screws because the pickups are now too far from the strings, and I still have strings choking in the higher frets. I might need to adjust the trussrod now, but it looks like I need to buy imperial-sized hex keys... The true Jazzmaster setup experience !
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This is also part of the problem, but the body I have has been routed for humbuckers by a previous owner, so the screws lose their bite in the wood before attaining a proper height. Maybe I'll have to shim the bottom of the pickup cavities too !
FWIW, the break angle at the bridge is now great and the strings stay better in the saddles, which was not a given with slippery tapewound strings.
@timtam thanks ! I think my neck is from a MIM strat, with truss rod access at the nut, I'll look it up.
And sorry to the OP for derailing this thread to my own problems!
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Thanks Flurko, ordered it right away!
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Re: To shim or not to shim Jazzmaster?
I have the squier jaguar Cv and I just brought the 60th anniversary Fender Jazzmaster. And I have the same thoughts. You believe that I should shim them ?