Martin SC13e / "Sure Align" Neck system
- Stephen Wigney
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
A few years ago, Martin released some guitars with a new adjustable neck - the "Sure Align" neck system. This operates quite like shimming an electric guitar neck, and requires shims that Martin calls "Elevation Plates".
The system is quite unlike Taylor's adjustable ("NT") neck system.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to acquire the Elevation Plates in Australia: they are sold by Martin as part of a maintenance kit in the US, but Martin doesn't ship directly. The local distributors don't appear to be able to readily source them either.
I have a stock of these shims that were 3D printed, and am able to provide setup services where neck adjustment is required, therefore keeping your Martin within factory spec.

You can see where the shim slots into the neck block on this SC13e:




