Brand: Taylor
Model: 614CE
Year made: 2010
Body Material: Spruce top maple back and sides
Finish: gloss
Neck: Taylor bolt on
Radius:
Neck Material: hard rock maple
Fingerboard: ebony
Fret wire:
Fret Number: 20
Scale: 25.5
Pickups:Taylor Expression System.
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The frets have some serious dents in them. This one has some miles on it.
The action was super high at 9/64ths.
The truss rod nut was adjusted all the way down and the neck had a bow in it.
I pulled off the truss rod nut and added some washers and lubricated the threads.
I put the nut back on and now have plenty of space left to turn the rod.
The before and after. can you tell which is cleaned and which is dirty?
I lubricated the inner workings of the tuners.
I set it up on my neck jig to prepare for a fret level.
Now that the truss rod is fixed in can straighten out the neck.
The tools i use to manipulate the neck back to simulated string tension.
After a few passes you can see the divots. I have to level the frets until these go away. Then I can start the crowning and polishing steps.
The little red line left after crowning the frets let me know when i left just enough on the top for the best intonation.
Cleaned and polished on the left and before on the right.
Polished to a mirror shine.
Sanding the saddle to lower the action.
Got the action to 6/64ths on the low e and 4/64ths on the high e. The action could have been a little lower but the player has a heavy hand so i left it "higher" than it can go.
The case had a few spots where the tolex was coming off so as an added bonus i glued them back in place.
I ran the headstock through my buffer to bring back that original shine.
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