Highwood saddles bottoming out on bridge?? Need advice

Yours has the micro tilt correct? If so that can achieve the same thing. Just loosen the neck bolts a few turns, adjust, then tighten the neck bolts.

 

Excellent! Hopefully that will do the trick. Keep us posted.

 

Thank you! Very glad it worked out and happy playing.

 

Nothing better than a happy ending!

 

I see you confirmed no shim, but that angle on the neck definitely looks tilted forward based on the first pics. So it may just be the way the neck fits the pocket .

Yes...shimming it close to the body will tiit the neck back, lowering the action as a conseqence, but it's not used to adjust action. That's done with the saddles. Lowering it will allow you to raise those saddles up and give you some degree of play up or down instead of just having them decked. Decked there is no way to go but higher.

 

Geez..why didn't I see that post? Good call @Antstrat! I had the right idea but the wrong solution. I didn't even stop to think if his guitar had the MT.

 

I have those saddles and I do not endorse them. Nothing wrong with them, its a subjective dislike: I do not like the way they change the tone of the instrument. Its much more subdued and dull sounding. Slotted saddles are not my cup of tea. £50 burned to find that out.. oh well.

 

About a 1/4 inch strip of a buisness card works.

 

You just need to add a shim to the south end of the neck pocket and readjust accordingly.