How To Adjust the Action on Your Acoustic Guitar

This is how you adjust the action on your acoustic guitar, including lowering the action and raising the action.

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In this episode of “Gibson’s Guide to Guitar Setup and Maintenance,” Gibson Master Luthier, Jim DeCola, shows us how to adjust the action on your acoustic guitar without turning it into a pile of expensive kindling. Jim also shows off his ingenious, DIY bridge adjuster.

If you want to lower the action of your acoustic guitar safely, follow Jim’s step-by-step guide on adjusting the action. If you want to raise the action on your acoustic guitar, Jim also shows you the safe way to higher the action, in a way that ensures your guitar sounds as good as it should!

Master Luthier Jim DeCola shares an ingenious piece of DIY technology he created to more easily and accurately adjust the bridge piece of acoustic guitars. It’s a tool anyone at home can make with a piece of smooth glass, some sandpaper, a little glue, and a small piece of wood. Does it work? Consider, Jim’s a guy who sweats 32/1,000ths of an inch, so yeah, it works. And after you watch this video, you’ll be able to adjust your action up or down with relative ease. Jim also covers what to do in a gigging situation where your acoustic guitar action is thrown off, but you don’t have the time, or the benefit of a workbench, or your own guitar tech. And if you’ve ever wondered, “What would Jim do?” if a sudden change in humidity threw off your action, you’re about to find out.

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Chapters
0:00 Lowering action on acoustic guitar
7:38 Raising action on acoustic guitar
10:05 How climate affects guitar action

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