tele troubles. sympathy needed

[cugel]

its a long painful story so please dont ask...i broke the neck on one of my parts teles. right in the middle. replaced it with a warmoth neck.
everything seemed fine until i stung her up. the only way i can make it play is to crank the saddles all the up HIGH. If I leave them where they were on with the old neck the stings touch the 22nd fret!! I have tried adjusting the truss rod (i loosened it) and now the action is rather high on the end of the neck. Mind you I dont know a whole lot about setting up a guitar properly and I hope one of you experts will just tell me its a mal-adjusted TR. I can find my way around an amp better than a guitar. Go figure.

Do you think that the force needed to break a guitar neck could have damaged the neck pocket?

thanks in advance to you all

[maestrovert]

Shim the neck on the headstock end of the neck pocket....a small strip off of a credit card type material should do the trick....
search it out...it's a legitimate technique, you won't hurt anything by doing it....
if there's a GOOD tech in your area, i'd have it checked after such a traumatic experience as snapping a neck....or consult with our own Kevin or Rob DiStefano....guys ?

edited to correct my mis-statement, and THANX !

[Oldschoolwax]

Umm... maestrovert means to say the outside ( towards the headstock ) part of the neck pocket is where you need to shim the neck. That should work for you..

[maestrovert]

yes, i did mis-state myself originally...Thanx O.S.W. , ya caught me, & i really appreciate it !

[cugel]

thanks for your info.
i will check into this once i get home from work and I might also bring it to a tech too.
i will keep you posted

have a good weekend

[Kevin]

That should work...

Of course, a lot of people (myself, included) like those saddles up high to get more of a break angle on the strings. Some folks will even shim the front edge of the neck pocket to be able to raise the saddles....

It's whatever works for you, though....

[GlennLewis]

All the shimming in the world won't help you if the neck thickness at the heel is to thick for the neck pocket.

Say what? Okay, measure the thickness of the old neck, distance from the fretboard to the back. Then measure your new neck. Is the new neck thicker? If it is much thicjer, then no amount of shimming is going to make it thinner, right?

If there is like 1/8" difference or thereabouts, you've got a choice of recutting the neck pocket deeper, or reducing the thickness of the neck so it doesn't stick so far out of the pocket.

Sounds harder than it is, and unfortunately I've had to do one or the other on 4 of my last 6 tele-creations.

Measure it up and see where you stand, hopefully shimming will do it for you. If not, don't be afraid, just take it slow.