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TerryLiberty
Lokahi

USA
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Posted - 01/15/2012 :  5:39:12 PM  Show Profile  Visit TerryLiberty's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Herb:

Good thoughts. I guess I'm not sure (pretty inexperienced) how to decide where the sweet spot is. I suspect this comes with a good deal of playing, right? Sort of like being in love - "When you get there you'll know". Or maybe not. Is there a way to tell?

Mahalo for your kind help.
Terry

Olympia, WA
Forever a haumana
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TerryLiberty
Lokahi

USA
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Posted - 02/09/2012 :  5:26:02 PM  Show Profile  Visit TerryLiberty's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well, I lived with the unmodified Seagull for a month and have dearly loved playing it but the high action still bugged me.

Today I carefully loostened the strings, popped out the bridge pins, removed the ball end of the strings from the bridge and pulled out the bridge saddle. I put it in a jig that would assure an even removal of .040 inch (1mm) of material and lowered the action. This gave me .020 inch (.5mm) lower at the 12th fret. I was even able to keep the original strings!

Result? I'm not there yet but this is almost a different guitar! I need to play it some more but there is much less effort needed to fret the notes. Legato gets easier because I can hold notes longer and it's less frequent that I touch strings next to those I fret. So far, there's no buzzing even with the guitar tuned to Leonard's F (F wahine).

I may take another .020 inch off but I think I'll live with it for a while before I do.

No Ka Po is closer to being in reach!!

Thanks for all the comments and counsel.

Regards.
Terry

Olympia, WA
Forever a haumana
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