U.S. Guitar Kits Acoustic Guitar Kit, Руководство по сборке

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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Be sure to initially touch the neck to the heel
surface and check that the sanding mark is not just on one side. This will
cause the neck to sit skewed on the body of the guitar.
If the neck is sitting to far back, an adjustment of the table so that the
heel closest to the top of the neck is pretty much the only thing being
sanded and the bottom of the heel barely gets touched.
Once the bottom of the heel comes in contact with the disk
face....STOP...you're there.….re-fit
Pitch Back
If your neck is pitched back and there is a large gap above the bridge and
below the straightedge, the neck heel needs to be sanded more at the top
of the neck and feathered in to the bottom of the neck heel (little if any
off the neck heel). This will allow the neck to rotate forward.
BE SURE TO SAND FLAT AND EVENLY! When you dry fit the neck,
it should NOT rock in the middle of the neck heel…you have hump in
the middle….flatten out the middle…..re-fit.
Pitch Forward
If your neck is pitched forward and the straight edge hits below the
height of the bridge, the neck needs to be sanded more at the bottom of
the neck heel (and little if any off the top of the neck heel.) Make a mark
1/16” back on the neck heel face. Use that line as a reference to sand
back to.
BE SURE TO SAND FLAT AND EVENLY! When you dry fit the neck,
it should NOT rock in the middle of the neck heel…you have hump in
the middle….flatten out the middle…..re-fit.
Neck Bolt Tip
You may need to open the holes on the body where the neck bolts go
through. Do not use a bigger drill bit as that could oversize the hole too
much. Use a small file to elongate the hole either up or down depending
on whether the neck needs to shift up or down a little bit.
As a final test, bolt the neck on and dry fit the fingerboard and bridge.
Using the straightedge laid on top of the fingerboard, project that line to
the bridge which should be at the same height or just above (between
1/32” and 1/16”). Continue to make adjustments to get within this
tolerance.