Re: This isn't right is it?
Originally Posted by
Rob Roy
For reference: 0.060-0.070" clearance at the twelfth fret for the E string is good action if everything else is where it belongs. You can get it lower but sound becomes pinched and you lose volume IME.
I respectively disagree, my mandolin is E-.030 and G-.045 and I have lots of volume and sustain. Ask any one across the room at a jam when I am playing, I don't have to play hard. I have been playing for decades and I wouldn't play with that high of an action.
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