Chapter 100: Set Your Action At The 12th Fret Like A PRO! — Transcript

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1. 0:04Now we need to figure out action at the
2. 0:0812th fret.
3. 0:11So the 12th fret is halfway down our
4. 0:15scale.
5. 0:17I want to shoot for about 2 and 12
6. 0:20millimeters on the low E and 2
7. 0:24millimeters on the high E. I am I'm
8. 0:27about.88
9. 0:30mm 75 millime 8 mm off um here not quite
10. 0:36a full millimeter which means that I
11. 0:39have to take twice that amount off at
12. 0:42the bridge. So, I'm going to be at 1 and
13. 0:48a2 mm uh at the bridge that I need to
14. 0:52take off because I if we're half our
15. 0:56scale length, that means we're at a 2:1
16. 0:58ratio. So, whatever the amount is that I
17. 1:01take off on the saddle, then half of
18. 1:04that is going to be measured here. So,
19. 1:07if I take off one millimeter at the
20. 1:09saddle, that means I drop half a
21. 1:12millimeter at the 12th fret.
22. 1:14And since I need about
23. 1:1875.8
24. 1:19to be dropped here, I need to take twice
25. 1:22that at the saddle, which means that I
26. 1:26need to take off about a 16th.
27. 1:30So, I am going to loosen up the strings
28. 1:32now
29. 1:34cuz I need to get this saddle out of
30. 1:37here.
31. 1:39Now, I do have this little jig here,
32. 1:42which is super handy. And it's got
33. 1:46grooves built into it with measurements
34. 1:48already set. So, I'm going to take a
35. 1:52planed pencil so I get a nice sharp
36. 1:54line. And I need to take off about one
37. 1:57and a half millimeters, just over one
38. 1:59and a half. And that's a 16th. So, I'm
39. 2:03going to draw my line right at that
40. 2:0716th.
41. 2:09So, I am going to take it right up to
42. 2:12that line and I'm going to do that on my
43. 2:14sander and
44. 2:17I'll be right back. All right, this is
45. 2:20now sanded down and I'll put it back in
46. 2:24the saddle slot and we will double
47. 2:27check.
48. 2:30There we go. Oh yeah, perfect.
49. 2:33Wind the strings back up.
50. 2:39Okay, now I'll tune this back up and
51. 2:42I'll double check at the 12th fret. Now
52. 2:45that the saddle is shaped, I'm going to
53. 2:47measure this again at the 12th fret. We
54. 2:49are just
55. 2:51about 2 and 1/2 mm there
56. 2:55and
57. 2:58right at 2 mm on the high E. So, we're
58. 3:03good there.
59. 3:06That sounds pretty good. Now we just
60. 3:09have to check the intonation as our
61. 3:12final step. So we will check that out in
62. 3:15the [music] next video.