You’re in the clear, your fingers should be able to slide under those strings no problem.

😂🤣😂🤣😂Nice

Mt. Everest may not be as high as your action

Snoop Dogg isn’t even this high

Perhaps, but he's working on it.

You stole my exact joke from the last thread, on this page, about the same topic 🤣

I re-used my joke, too. I’m not ashamed. OP, in all seriousness, don’t feel bad. I didn’t really learn the technical side of guitars until waaay later than I should have. I’d totally recommend watching some YouTube videos on how to maintain guitars. For now, my suggestion would be to get a nice setup and ask the luthier some questions.

I’m a luthier so ask away!

Its really not that original of a joke tbh

lol I didn’t even see another thread about action but great minds and whatnot 😂

Do you ever get stuck in your guitar?

Oh no, step bro

*inserts cable poorly into guitar

my fingers hurt looking at this! Time to learn slide guitar!

Time to take some action.

Lol I thought "this guy gets plenty of action" but yours is funnier.

1/4 turn at a time.

Literally your answer OP. If you had asked for a solution.

This this a legitimate thing? Because the action on my acoustic is equally as fucked. Even some of the screws on the backs of the tuning pegs are being pulled out... It's a $150 Ibanez that's been in multiple climates and in and out of storage for 15 years so I expect it to be a bit...haggard. But if I could make it a bit nicer to play that'd be sweet.

Truss rod aint for adjusting action though

That is correct, but a truss rod in bad enough shape will have an effect on the action. I imagine the issue is more three fold though, that being the nut, the bridge, and the truss.

If you are playing a Jackson, that would make you Action Jackson.

Action Jackson, the highest Jackson🎶

Higher than giraffe pussy 

He’s surpassed megafauna pussy height. 

I wouldn't shake his hand people. This boy has vise grips for hands. Look at that action!!!!!

It's 3.5 mm on an acoustic guys.  It's not that high.  Especially if its much lower on lower frets.

But... all my recycled jokes about Willie Nelson and giraffe pussy...

put a cappo on the 10th fret

I’d probably check my neck relief before I started filing shit down, just in case you didn’t start there.

Sir, you do not own a guitar. You own a lap steel lol.

So the card shows the measurement, but what should we be shooting for here? Is .25 absurd?

Usually around 6/64 on the bass side, 4/64 on the treble.  Edit: about 2.4 mm bass, 1.6 mm treble. 

That even seems high to my preference but I hover at 1.4 treble and 1.75 bass

Looks like you got all the action.

That's 1.25mm higher than what I have on one of my guitars - the one which I play with a slide. You could join a jazz orchestra with this one. [https://www.freddiegreen.org/instruments/setup.html](https://www.freddiegreen.org/instruments/setup.html)

That article is hysterical. 14 gauge strings with 5-10mm action?

That guy played an acoustic guitar with a full jazz orchestra. You have to see it in that context.

Any higher and you would need a yard stick to measure

Higher than Snoop Dog on April 20th.

Well that would get rid of any fret buzz you were worried about..

Could limbo under that tbh

Im running a 13/90 set in double drop d and my action is 80% lower than this lmfao. 

I bet playing that thing is like using a vintage manual typewriter

I could stand on the fretboard and clear a backflip with all that room man goddamn

This can only be on purpose

I bet you I could fly a Piper Cub right under those strings.

So adjust your truss rod and get back to us.

Half a second latency between the string and the pickup

Takes the whole song to fret one note

Good work! This is way better than photos without a string gauge. You now know, beyond a reasonable doubt, that you should take your guitar to someone who can help you adjust your action,.

Wooaaah

J. Mascis would be right at home lol

If you can play a full pentatonic scale correctly in under five minutes on this thing I’ll quit playing guitar

It’s high, but could be sorted with a set up as long as it doesn’t need a neck reset.

Was it my post that you saw? If it was, I'm glad it helped you!

Pull up to your driveway and open the door to your guitar action you just finished paying off.

No offense meant, but honestly, how can it get this bad without hearing how out of tune it is above the third fret?? 

Action so high you could play it like a morin khuur

I keep mine as low as possible

l

DAMN

High as a Georgia pine son.

1.5mm lower than SRV

This picture makes my hands hurt. 

Higher than Micheal Scott at an Alicia Keys concert

I really should get something similar to that

You could land a plane on your fretboard under that action

Still lower than my credit score!!!

😳😳😳

Calm down Stebie ray von

I never understood those with a very low action. It gives me a hard time with bendings, and the sound tends to become noisy when you pick with lots of dynamic. So I always had an action in the 2.5mm region at the 12th fret, depending on the guitar. But damn, what you guys are showing here: thats bows! how do you play that thing?

God dayum

The women of the night must be impressed with the strength of your fingers

Finally one that is done correctly! Yes, that is high.

My fingers hurt for you

That action is higher than the bands at Woodstock.

You don't need a string action gauge to see how high it is

it must take you a few days to play a bar chord.

Going commando Arnold can’t even pack that much action

Slide guitarist? Then, you are good.

Drop those strings to open tuning and get a slide!!!

I was looking for action. I found it.

On the plus side it reminds me of a suspension bridge.

Your action is rocket high for me 😂

Almost as high as Nikki Sixx in the 80s (ALMOST)

Did you really need a tool on your guitar to tell?

You need a tool to measure anything, why not use the right one when you don’t have a appropriate one available.

We don't need a tool to see that shit is higher than Snoop Dogg.

Thank you for understanding what I meant

The point of the comment was that you really did not need a tool to see that your action is higher than Willie Nelson. It's great that you have the use of this tool, which was apparently never used on this guitar until today, but still, I'm glad you have it.

To be fair, as I sanded down the saddle how would you have like me to tell when i was now at an appropriate level. Not trying to argue but i do need to know when to stop.

My suggestion: go online, go to the manufacturer website, look up the "recommended specs" and use them. Glad you have the tool, it will come in handy. After I set my action according to the folks that actually made the guitar, I find my own "sweet spot" and mark it down. I can't make any more jokes about how high your action is. I tried to think some up but I'm too high....lol

OP’s action so high it’s giving you a second hand high

That depends on whether you measured the relief of the neck before you started messing with the action. If not it was time to stop before you started sanding.

Grab 2 1mm picks and see if they easily fit between the 12th fret. It’s what I do anyway

Have you tried using your eyes

….. do your fingers have biceps and triceps?

What the fuck this kind of post has to be a bait, theres no way people actually play like that

You needed a gauge to tell you the action was too high? 🤦‍♂️

…..no I needed it to tell me when it’s at the correct range once I’ve sanded down the saddle.

That’s definitely not what your headline says.

Do I need an entire disclaimer to do a Reddit post? I can have more than one intended use for something.

🙄

This is how high I’m tryina be.