String height

[Cripes]

I'm working on a saddle to adjust the string height to about 5/64 on the Low E.

 

 

PITA.

[Freeman Keller]

If you need guidence, this is pretty good

http://p082.ezboard.com/ftheunofficialmartinguitarforumfrm2.showMessage?topicID=8383.topic

And approach that 5/64 slowly - that's pretty low. I've always shot for that on the high E and about 6/64 on the low. Its an even bigger PITA if you go too low and have to come back up

[Cripes]

Originally posted by Freeman Keller If you need guidence, this is pretty good http://p082.ezboard.com/ftheunofficialmartinguitarforumfrm2.showMessage?topicID=8383.topic And approach that 5/64 slowly - that's pretty low. I've always shot for that on the high E and about 6/64 on the low. Its an even bigger PITA if you go too low and have to come back up

 

 

That's the PITA part. Sand-a-little, check-a-little, etc. I don't have a hard attack or use flatpick so I'm pretty safe at that height. I just need to complain about it a little. The low E started at 1/8th" and that is the Brooklyn Bridge for me. I play way up the register and use full barre chords there. I need as much help as I can get. The neck relief looks good.

 

However, there is none that I can see on my other guitar and that action is a bit high. I'll complain about that when I get to it.

 

Thanks Freeman. I'll peruse that link.

[Bilbo]

Cripes is right. Forget the measuring. Each guitar is different. I file/sand a little, etc. with old strings on 'cause I'm going to take them off several times. I know it's right when I pick the strings REAL hard, harder than I would ever play, and just begin to hear a buzz. Some guitars set higher, some lower, but measuring is what the factory setters do, and factory setup always sux without exception.