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Lowering Acoustic Guitar String Action | Ovation Celebrity

Lowering the action on a acoustic guitar. Lowering guitar strings. Ovation Celebrity. Mechanical Madman, for a reason....

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When I wrote Truss Rods Made Easy, I mentioned that Ovation, bowl-back guitars, without a regular sound hole, had to have their truss rods adjusted through an access port around the back.
Action/Truss Rod adjustment
  1. stick an allen key of the right size into the little hole in your headstock (or soundhole for acoustic).
  2. Clockwise to lower action, and counter to raise it.
  3. loosen strings.
You can use your strings as a straight edge by pushing them down to both the 1st and 14th frets simultaneously. Then the gap between the string and the 6th fret can be observed. A gap slightly thinner than a business card is about right. From this point, you can adjust to your own preference.
Keep in mind that most good necks usually require no more than half of a turn in either direction. Using the mark you made to note the original position of the rod, start with an eighth of a turn, re-tune the guitar and check the gap again.