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.

How will you proceed?

How will you lower the action?

File the saddle bottoms

Crank the truss rod until string heights are right

Sand the saddle top

Look for shims to remove

Route the saddle channel lower

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