I seem to end up with neck angles of around 4.5 degrees, using the Benedetto method of floating fretboard, etc. Sometimes a little less. You can easily measure neck angle by putting a protractor on the side of the body, and measuring the angle at the bottom of the fretboard. I target a 1" height above the body for a measuring stick placed on the fretboard (with frets installed), and try to finesse the neck set to accomplish that. That gives me 1 1/8" bridge height with a 1/16" action at the 12th fret. I have no idea how this would relate to a Kalamazoo, though.
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Brian Evans
Around 15 archtops, electrics, resonators, a lap steel, a uke, a mandolin, some I made, some I bought, some kinda showed up and wouldn't leave. Tatamagouche Nova Scotia.
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