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Finding some weird stuff in my mate’s Jaguar: Local music shop had made a proper hash of fitting a new nut. It was way too high, not even cut to the right width and they hadn’t sanded off the tab underneath even tho there was no slot for it, so the bridge was teetering like a see saw with clear gaps under each end.
Pisses me off the they have audacity to take people’s money for such shitty work.
Anyway, spend some time sanding and shaping so we should be good now. Will string it up and try before committing to glue.
Another weird thing is the neck seems to been shimmed from the factory, but in the opposite direction you’re supposed to for these guitars. This shim wound actually decreases any backward neck angle and decrease the already minimal downward pressure on the bridge. Debating whether to leave it and add thicker shim on the body side or try and move it....
On the upside, the neck is dead straight so no worries there. Confident we’ll get it playing nicely.
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