Re: Setting up a new Asian-made four string
Just be sure, after lowering at bridge and/or nut, that the strings don't get too close to the pickups, or even touch them, when fretting up the neck. The pickups' magnetism can have an effect on the strings' vibration - ya don't want that!
To answer your embedded question: I'd go for a luthier w/ mandolin experience over one that "specializes" in electric guitars - too many of those folks mostly screw on replacement parts while having little thought of fine-tuning the core structure that's already there, OR of the far-tighter tolerances that a mandolin-length scale requires compared to guitar.
- Ed
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