Bridge is Too High
Newbie to the mandolin, and also a newbie to Reddit. So be gentle please 🤣!
I am coming back to the mandolin after 17 years or so, at which time I was a pretty big flop. Gonna tackle it again. I think my action is too high, and I’d like to try to lower it on my own. I figure the worst that can happen is I get the strings too loose, the bridge falls off, and I need to take it to a guitar shop to get it repositioned correctly. Not a big deal… and if my instrument looks to be strung backward, that’s because I’m a lefty. For reference, this is a Silver Angel A-style made by Ken Ratliff of Eastern KY.
Any instructions or tips would be appreciated. I want to lower the string action so that a piece of shirt cardboard could be slipped between the strings and the frets, correct?