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• pmh425 Middle Island, NY✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 86

  After shimming, my Dell Arte is at 3.5 mm at the low E and a bit under 3 mm at the high E. When I purchased it, it was 1.5 - 2 mm

  -Peter
• Heretic In the Pond✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 230

  A Gitane DG-300 with proper action is a loud and good guitar.
• pmh425 Middle Island, NY✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 86

  I would agree with Heretic on this. His DJ-300 is a dream to play and sounds wonderful.

  -Peter
• anthon_74 Marin county, CA✭✭✭✭ Alta Mira M 01

  July 2013 Posts: 562

  Like I said, I also raised the action on my DG 300 by putting the spare bridge I had sitting around on it and it transformed it into an entirely different guitar. Unfortunately, the spare bridge puts the action a bit too high so I need to file the bridge down about a mm.
  
  The difference is so astonishing i can hardly believe.
• pmh425 Middle Island, NY✭✭✭✭

  July 2013 Posts: 86

  I created shims from rosewood veneer. I got a couple of sheets from Luthiers Mercantile International (http://www.lmii.com/) and cut the shims to match the contact points on the bridge. Works well as I can adjust the action with humidity changes.

  -Peter
• pickitjohn South Texas Corpus, San Antonio, AustinVirtuoso Patenotte 260

  July 2013 Posts: 936

  I found the same thing about getting your bridge right.
  Hey Anthony,
  
  Here is a link to Josh's "Fitting your Bridge Post" very well explained and easy.
  viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1200
  
  Hope that helps
  
  pickitjohn

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• Goatherd New

  July 2013 Posts: 25

  Thanks guys, this has been very helpful.
  
  I was meeting this problem from the other end. I had very high action on my guitars and I was used to it. The sound was good too. The I started doing some of my right hand exercises and work on phrasing on an old parlor guitar with non gypsy action. It had its advantages.
  
  I shaved and refit the bridge on my Asian made guitar, which is a nice guitar for the money by the way, and the action is still about 3.5 mm. I used an automotive feeler gauge to measure the height. I guess I can't say what it did to the sound because I "dialed in" the intonation when I replaced the bridge and that always makes a huge difference.
  
  I think the video that Bob Holo did for Patrus about setting up a GJ guitar was on the money.