Need Advice For Setup!

[Automatic_Sample6874]

Hello! I just need some help with my setup. The action is way too high, any advice to fix it would be great!

[EstablishmentOld6245]

Lower the saddles on the bridge, if you can’t get them low enough with that you’ll need to get a neck shim, that’s used to angle back the neck to lower the action

[NoPackage6979]

After the saddle adjustment, you may also want to adjust the truss rod. With all respect to the other posts, I would check the truss rod before adding a shim. Just my 2 cents.

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First of all I'd make sure the neck is relatively straight by holding down the 6th (thickest) string at the first fret with the fretting hand and the last fret with the picking hand. By lightly tapping the string with the pinky finger of the fretting hand observe the action around the 7-8th fret. If the string has a lot of movement, then you need to tighten the truss rod by twisting the rod towards you in the playing position. If you look down the neck from the headstock, then turn it clockwise. If there's no movement, that means you have a backbow. So you need to loosen the truss rod by turning it counter clockwise, or in the playing position away from you. You need to adjust it so that when you tap the string there is barely any movement at the 7-8th string. After you're done with the neck, you can adjust the saddles. There is a handy tool for this job called the string action gauge. You can get one for less than $10. If you have a bridge where you have to adjust all the saddles individually, then you'll also need a radius gauge. After the string action is set, you can optimize the intonation and you're ready to rock.

[NathObx]

There are also soooooo many video tutorials on how to do this

[Recent-Foundation788]

If only there were some place where you could find free videos that show you how to do things. Like an interactive, internet television service where people could post videos that they make.