Echi -> RE: New guitar set up (Aug. 12 2015 18:30:39)
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Of course is preferable to have room for future adjustments just by shaving the bone. If I was a buyer I'd check the action together with other aspects (how it sounds, how easy to play it is etc). My point is that you should assess the guitar and understand why the action is the way it is, case by case, without presuming the neck is about to bend forward soon. If the neck is healthy and you feel comfortable with the actual action (or you have room enough) that's it; I don't see reason to get worried. I set up many Condes in the past: some of them (and some of the best were this way) had settings at the border of the standards above (both at the bridge and at the 12th fret) often because of a high neck relief. As I said before, they were perfectly playable as the neck angle allowed a comfortable position of the right hand at the rosette. I still remember instead an old Conde with no neck relief at all and the bone way too high at the bridge, in order to let you have 2.5 at the 12th fret: in theory the latter was perfect and the first one wrong (and plenty of room) but in the real life it was the opposite. As I said above, 3 mm is ok but to me is a low setting: For some guitars 3.2 or a little more is way better. I took a look at the pictures in the website of a famous dealer selling Condes, Reyes, Barbas and so on: not even one of them was set up at 3 mm at the 12th fret and just few were set at over 8 mm at the bridge. These are just my 2 cents and oviously respect different opinions. It's just that many people reading these "standards" in Internet either ask for setting good just in theory (but not fitting their guitar) or get scared for 0.2 mm less or more...if it was for them both the settings of the guitar of Vicente Amigo and Paco the Lucia would be wrong.
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