Adjustable Mandolin Bridge Height
Sometime in the next few days I'm going to take some time and finally do a bit of setup work on my Kentucky KM-500.
As most of you will know, it has an adjustable bridge. The bridge as it came to me is at it's lowest adjustment. I could turn the wheels to raise it, but not to lower it. Such has been the case with the handful of other mandos I've owned.
My sense is that when I set the action at the bridge, I should turn the wheels a few times so that there's room to adjust it both up and down so I can fine tune it and respond to seasonal changes. Or, if the bridge is at it's lowest adjustment, I feel like I should bring it down slightly further than I really want it, and then bring it up with the adjusters.
This makes logical sense to me, but I recognize that I might be missing something. Do folks usually just leave the adjustment wheels bottomed out, or provide some room on either side?
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