New neck for my Mexican Telecaster coming soon.

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You can always get a lower action than the factory settings, especially the nut slots. You may not want to ho too low if you play slide guitar, bit if not, getting those nut slots really low does help the playability and keeps the first few frets more in tune as you don’t have to press down so hard to fret the strings, so the tension increase is minimal.

I usually go by Fender factory specs when doing setups on my Fender guitars, the first-fret action is 0.020 inch, and I normally set the 17th fret action for all the strings to 4/64ths, or 2/32s, or 1/16th inch, that's a low enough action for me, neck relief at the 8th fret is usually 0.010 to give a slight forward bow to the neck, and then I use a 9.5 inch radius gauge to set all the strings right.

Using imperial units of measurement is a habit I got into while working in my dad's workshop as an apprentice fitter and machinist.