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Lowering to action of a cbg

How do you lower the string action with a cookie tin guitar? I do neck through guitars.
I use a can and glue an extra piece of wood to match the height of the can but other than cutting a slot for the nut the string height is still too high. I want to start putting regular frets on but haven't solved this first issue of string height being too high.

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Permalink Reply by jabes on November 17, 2013 at 10:14am

I love reading this stuff

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on November 16, 2013 at 7:43am

Oily I'm looking for scarf joint on the site that you are referring to where the body meets the neck (still looking) not where nut meets the headstock. I see photos and videos of the scarf joint where the nut meets headstock ....which by the way I never knew you could cut and angle and flip it around to create that slanted neck look...(wondering if glue will hold?) cool

Re: slanting with shims where neck meets body.Ok I see some pics not totally clear but I'm also using tins so its a bit different. I'm sure it's been done here on cbn.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on November 16, 2013 at 7:46am

Any photos of that shim end where neck meets the box?

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 16, 2013 at 8:37am

Pics of those involve heavy screws into a block of wood into the neck which does not go all the way through the box. They are like a Fender bolt on neck with 4 screws; you can shim under the two screws nearest the tail, giving you some down angle on the neck. But I was talking about setting some shims under the TAIL end, lifting it up slightly in relation to where the neck meets the box:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/bluescimer

Oh, and I found the thread with The Kid's original illustration of his inside the box scarf cut, plus shims:

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/through-body-necks-conta...

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on November 16, 2013 at 9:20am

That's great. Just gotta get that idea into tins...

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on November 13, 2013 at 7:05pm

Hard to see in this pic but its where the blue paint is where it drops

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on November 16, 2013 at 1:59am

You could also use a smaller diameter bolt.

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Permalink Reply by Hellhound Custom Built Guitars on November 16, 2013 at 12:38pm

I use coriane counter top material for most of my builds. I find it is plenty hard enough, but cuts with any kind of saw I use my jig saw or table saw and make a bunch of blanks, I shape them on a sander but most important once on the guitar I can easily change the slot height to lower the strings as close as I can to the fret by simply running my triangular file in the slot a few times.