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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on September 14, 2018 at 6:10pm

Here’s a good start, Search Glenn Watt, he has some set-up videos too

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GiQPwDE-0U8

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Fischer on September 15, 2018 at 11:56am

Thanks, thats an informative good Video.

I checked with some of my Regular Guitars, the examples he shows will work for me, so i now have a starting point and when the Guitars are built i can make adjustments.

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Permalink Reply by Webster Miller on September 15, 2018 at 7:17am

To each his own but 1mm at the first fret and 2.5mm at the 12th work well for me. 

The fretwire I use has a .046" (1.17mm) crown height.  I place a nickel (1.95mm) on the fretboard up against the nut and then slot until the file hits the nickel.  This results in ~1mm of action at the first fret and makes things pretty fool proof.  2 dimes stacked is 2.7mm and makes a decent feeler gauge for action at the 12th. 

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Fischer on September 15, 2018 at 11:58am

Thank you i guess 1mm and 2.5mm will work for me too.
Got no Nickels and Dimes here in Germany but ill get it.

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