“Starting with the neck pickup, you hold the high E string down at the highest fret and then measure the distance from the bottom of the high E string to the top of the pickup polepiece – and then do the same with the low E string. In the case of the Les Paul or an SG, that would be the 22nd fret. “To adjust the pickups, you hold both E strings down at the highest fret.
You can adjust lower, for example, if you have lighter touch or play heavier strings – they don’t tend to buzz as much as lighter-gauge strings do.”Īdjust the pickup height up for a hotter sound and down for cleaner tones. Of course, those are our factory specs and your taste may vary. “Once you have those two sets of specs, you adjust your bridge accordingly and that dials in your action. Then on the low E string, we’re looking for a gap of 5/64ths of an inch from the top of the fret to the bottom of the low E string. In other words, that’s the gap we’re looking for between the 12th fret and the bottom of the high E string. “On electrics, our official spec is 3/64ths of an inch. “Once you’ve checked the nut height at the 1st fret, it’s time to check the action at the 12th fret,” Jim says. The other strings are graduated between those dimensions.” 4. And then on the low E string, we look for 2/64th of an inch between the top of the fret and the bottom of the string. “At the 1st fret, we’ll look to have 1/64th of an inch between the top of the fret and the bottom of the high E string.
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