

Here is a list of guitar repair tools that you will need to lower the action on your acoustic guitar saddle.

Unlike electric guitars, acoustic guitars primarily have only one bridge and saddle design. After you have completed those steps, we are ready to lower your guitar action on the bridge and saddle, so you can get back to playing again. If you have not completed the first two steps, you should go to the truss rod adjustment page or the acoustic guitar nut action page for details about the first two steps. If you don’t follow these steps in order, you be spending a lot more time readjusting your setup after you “finished” it. You might not think it matters what order you lower your action, but it does. The third and final step is to set the action on the bridge. Second, the action needs to be set at the nut. First, you have to check the relief in the neck and adjust the truss rod accordingly.

As I mentioned in my Action Adjustment article, adjusting the action on an acoustic guitar take three basic steps.
