The first thing I did was to have a good look at the Guitar.  Since the owner wants a low action the question is how accurately are the frets set, any high frets will cause buzzing when the action is lowered.  I’m pleased to say it’s pretty good so I won’t need any work there.

The neck had a little more set in it than I would like but once it has only 5 strings and the reduced tuning on the A and E strings that may well reduce enough anyway.

I tried it first without the Bass E string and open G tuning but the set was still a little more than I want.

Since the truss-rod adjustment is on the base of the neck I had to take the neck off to adjust it.  With the neck mounted on the jig I can fit the new, lighter strings and bring them up to tone.  This way I can measure and get the exact set that I want.

With the neck back on the guitar it’s then a simple case of adjusting the bridge to get the action right.  It came down quite nicely without any buzzing, got about 3/64″ on the bass side and 2/64″ on the treble.

A double-check of the intonation, it only needed a small adjustment, and its done.

Now that I’ve seen and heard a guitar tuned that way I can see where some of those Stones licks come from!

This is one guitar I would actually like to see and hear in action.  I’ll have to keep an eye open to see when it’s out there being giged!