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Originally Posted by 6Picker

A friend asked me to do some work on her Fender acoustic guitar. The action is very high and from what I can tell this is mostly due to excessive relief in then neck. I can see this in two ways. 1) sighting down the neck with my eye at the body end of the guitar. It seems especially bowed at the low frets. 2) pushing down a string at the lowest and highest frets, and then pushing down at the 12th fret there is a good 1/16+ inch of travel.

I have loosened the strings and tightened the truss rod (clockwise) a couple times, probably a little more than a half rotation in total. It hasn't helped much.

Where should I go from here? Keep tightening on the truss rod? Let it sit with slack strings to give it time to straighten?

Do you have tension on the truss rod? usually a quarter turn or less will take care of neck relief. My Tele which I played for years, action was getting a little high, when I adjusted the truss rod it took four complete turns to feel any tension, less than a quarter turn I was back in business.