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Originally Posted by Frank Ford
As a general rule, we typically aim to have a straightedge lying on the frets, and hope it just grazes the top of the bridge with no saddle in place. Then, with a 3/16" high saddle, the action will wind up near 3/32" as the space between the bottom of the string and the top of the 12th fret.
I'm not particularly a fan of jacking the bridge/saddle up too high, so I'm conservative about neck angle.
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Frank, that makes sense. The book had me all confused. I will keep slowly flossing and checking until I get the straight edge closer. Oh, it's a dreadnought with a bolt on neck. I have been using a cam clamp at the location of the neck block to get the fingerboard down snug against the body before I snug up the bolts before I measure it.