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Hey all, so I picked up a nice Ohana tenor banjolele and I took it all apart and rebuilt it since the hardware was all wonky.
To finish the setup I was thinking the action was a bit high, and it’s weird to me the string spacing doesn’t really follow the neck profile. I’m less worried about that tho.
I’m going to try to attach pics here via mobile and hope they work, but can y’all eyeball it and see if it’s high?
If so, is there any suggestions to set it? I know there’s 2 main ways, adjusting the rod inside and removing material from the bridge itself but I’m not sure either will work in my case:
1, the neck is so far back from the factory I can set the uke down on a table and the headstock touches (not an issue to me, but it looks like i won’t be able to go back any further)
2, eyeballing it, I’d have to take so much material off the bridge that it’d no longer have a wide base. I think (again, eyeballing) that I need to take off about 1/8” to get it where I need.
Thanks
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To finish the setup I was thinking the action was a bit high, and it’s weird to me the string spacing doesn’t really follow the neck profile. I’m less worried about that tho.
I’m going to try to attach pics here via mobile and hope they work, but can y’all eyeball it and see if it’s high?
If so, is there any suggestions to set it? I know there’s 2 main ways, adjusting the rod inside and removing material from the bridge itself but I’m not sure either will work in my case:
1, the neck is so far back from the factory I can set the uke down on a table and the headstock touches (not an issue to me, but it looks like i won’t be able to go back any further)
2, eyeballing it, I’d have to take so much material off the bridge that it’d no longer have a wide base. I think (again, eyeballing) that I need to take off about 1/8” to get it where I need.
Thanks
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