Thread: Neck adjustment
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Old 02-21-2018, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by BT55 View Post
Neck adjustments can be misunderstood. Adjusting the neck is to correct its bow, not for string height. As a rule you should adjust about a 1/4 turn at a time. Let the guitar neck move and about 10 minutes later another 1/4 turn as required. If this is a string height issue that is corrected by adjusting the height of the bridge saddle.
I concur, on the understanding that neck relief has already been adjudged to be too extreme in one way or another.

I prefer action on my guitars to be a tad higher than the makers recommend - they say .005" and I prefer more like .008" at the seventh with capo on first and string pressed done on highest (19th) fret.
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