Adjusting The Action Height On A Gibson - Guitar Maintenance Lesson

Adjusting The Action Height On A Gibson - Guitar Maintenance Lesson
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This lick shows off a slightly different approach to your blues soloing where we move with the chord. For the first part of lick 8 we move our major / minor pentatonic shape up to D7. This simply means that we are playing a D minor pentatonic shape 1 with a D major pentatonic shape 2 (plus that cool Texas blues 'out note') to highlight the sound of the five chord (D). We then move this whole lick down to C, as shown on the fretboard below: (See website)

For the sake of this video, we will be working towards a standard action height, which is three 32nds on the low string and two 32nds on the high string. If you are unsure as to what action you should work towards, this is a safe bet and will work for most rock / blues players. To be able to accurately measure and adjust the action, we need the following tools:

1. 6" rule with 32nds & 64ths
The ruler needs to have fine measurements as we are dealing in very subtle changes when adjusting the string height.

2. Small spanner
This isn't a necessity, but a small spanner like this well help you easily adjust the bridge height. It will also help t stop you damaging the bridge in any way by using more clunky, heavy duty tools.

When you come to measure and change your action, here is a simple checklist that will help guide you through the process.

1. Get your guitar into pitch
2. Take the ruler and place it on the 12th fret, measuring from fret to string
3. Measure the height on the low E string and the high E string
4. Based on your factory specs, or the basic measurements in the text above, decide if you need to go up or down on either side
5.Use the spanner to turn the cogs on both sides of the neck. Remember that clockwise will lower the action and anti-clockwise will raise it. Two or three turns is enough
6. Tune the guitar again and then re-measure, repeat until you hit the required measurements.

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