Hello,
I'm desperately hoping somebody can give me some advice on this build my son and I are doing. We got all of the electronics done yesterday and he put the 1st string on today and our action is WAYYY to high, and we have the saddle as low as we can possibly go. We seriously have 6mm of string height over the frets where the body and the neck come together.
So, in this picture we can see that the saddles are set to their lowest position, but the gap between the strings and the frets is crazy.
I tried pulling out the screw height adjusters on the saddle to drop it as low as possible and we still have 4mm of action above the frets. You can see in this picture the adjusters are gone and I just have screwdrivers holding the saddle in place.
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When I put my neck in and glued it, we did have a small gap as shown in this picture, and I'm sure if we can steam the neck apart and reset it, we can drop the headstock a few mm, but I'm not sure if we are gonna come up with 5mm
My 14 year old is gutted....and feels that we have nothing more than a pile of firewood at this point. But we have 2 months into this build and I don't want to give up yet.....but I don't know why it seems our neck is just way too low.