PhilHill said:Action height is like string gauge, it all depends on personal preference and what type of playing you do. !/16 at the 12th is fairly low. Do you play lead or rhythm ?
Rhythm usually calls for it to be a little higher to avoid buzzing. But if it plays well now without buzz I'd say your fine.
TBurst Std said:Like he said. And also what relief are you running.
For E to e guitars a good rule of thumb I follow is 3/64 for wound strings , 2/64 for unwound.
PhilHill said:While I never examined one of his guitars, I've always heard that Stevie Ray preferred heavy gauge strings and rather high action. He felt it gave more dynamics to the notes.
DaveT said:possibly destroying the value of the guitar by having it tweaked to a more normal setup.
alexreinhold said:My personal rule: alap (as low as possible). I.e. provided a straight truss rod setting, I set the bridge to the lowest possible point where the low E string has no buzz when played normally but a slight buzz when i hit it really hard. All other strings shall have no buzz whatsoever. Another thing I do is test-bendings on high E, B, G strings on frets 12 and higher to double-check, I won't get dead notes.
This simple rule has served me truly for 20 years and I don't intend to change it. But yeah, it's a matter of taste.
Seamas said:I typically hit the strings fairly hard, I bend a lot and frequently play slide, so 4/64 on the low E is about as low as I ever need. I set the relief at .010, and use .10-.46 gauge strings
Not really. If you read Dan’s book, it’s about the average of his setups at the end. Relief I run on E to e guitars normally about .006 to .007.bruzanhd said:TBurst Std said:Like he said. And also what relief are you running.
For E to e guitars a good rule of thumb I follow is 3/64 for wound strings , 2/64 for unwound.
Wow that’s very low! Is that Measured with strings open? I run roughly 0.008” of relief.
Street Avenger said:I like no lower than 4/64" and no higher than 5/64" @ 12th fret.
bruzanhd said:Street Avenger said:I like no lower than 4/64" and no higher than 5/64" @ 12th fret.
This seems to be the perfect happy medium. I’ve been runnin about 4/64 at the 17th and I consider that low