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Hi folks,

which would be the best strin action on a 325 with 13s flatwounds, an can i screw the pickups a bit lower ?

Thanks

Peter

Hello,

I saw that there is no possibility to screw the pickup any lower without removing the rubber gommets.My neck is really straight and the nut is filed properly in my opinion. I already filed my Bigsby bridge in the outer part a little bit and it is about 2 mm lower, thats quite a lot better ! But again: are there any standard measures ? I also think, that the neck is slimmer than the neck of my alderglo 325c58, i thought they should be similar !

Thanks

Peter

Most "good" setups I have played on fretted instruments (especially guitar and bass) leave anywhere from 0.5-2 mm of action measured from the fret (fingerboard if fretless) at the maximum, and the neck angle is such that there is a "plateau" in the action around the 12th-15th frets. How much action you end up needing is style-dependent and should be determined more by relief than messing with the bridge ideally (IMO). I would consider more than 3 mm of action from the fret on just about any instrument rather excessive.

I'm just a bassist but I set up instruments for guitarists all the time and they seem to like the way I do things for them.

As for necks, on Rics they can vary quite a lot from year to year although maybe less so in recent years.