[Big*Al]

Yesterday I took delivery on a guitar . . . a pretty nice Guild import. I bought it from Amazon, so it was never looked at by anyone until I opened the box. The strings came without much tension and when I first tuned it up, the action was almost un-playably low. The neck relief, etc., appears to be OK, but the saddle seemed to be the issue. This morning, the action was closer to normal, so the guitar seems to be settling in a bit under tension.

Eventually, I plan to make a new bone saddle for it to my preferred string heights, but I suppose I should wait a while yet for the guitar to settle in some more. How long? A couple of days? A week? More?