This morning, sitting on my “perfectlly neat” workbench is a Takamine twelve-string acoustic guitar with a TK-40 preamp system with a split piezo pickup & saddle.

After setting relief, we decide we need to lower the action. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to set the string heights 0.010″ lower at the twelfth fret.

Split saddles & piezos

How will you proceed?

How will you lower the action?

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This is one of two shims found under the saddle