Mrs SanTTa bought me an interesting electo-acoustic a couple of weeks ago.
So far I've straightened the neck out (just by bringing the strings up to tension tbh) and I'll treat the drier-than-a-dry-thing fretboard with some lemon oil tomorrow.
The action is uncomfortably high. The nut end is fine, the bridge is the culprit. I'm assuming that I can just take the bridge out (I've done that bit) and then sand/file the offending 2mm off the base before putting it back into the slot? Having measured it fairly carefully and accurately, I reckon bringing the bridge height down by 2mm should do the trick, without introducing any fret buzz from strings touching them where they shouldn't.
It all seems logical to me - just the equivalent of screwing an electric bridge down - but I've never done any work on an acoustic before and I just wanted to check that there are no "gotchas" in doing what I'm planning on doing.
Any thoughts?
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The easiest way to do this is with a sanding board - a piece of sandpaper glued firmly to a very flat piece of wood/material (thick chipboard or MDF is ideal) which you rub the saddle over after you've cut the height off. You can easily tell when you've got it dead flat - first rub it at right angles to the saddle until there are even scratches in that direction, then along its length until they all disappear.
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