Mission to improve S-100 bridge adjustment. How are studs?

[fearless]

Not sure if i should be posting this here or in "tech shop".

Suzie, my '73 S-100 is near to perfect, but I'd like to lower the action a little further and do NOT want to spring for a neck re-set. Having extra radius added to the fretboard has improved playability, but at the cost of remaining bridge adjustment. To address this, I'm thinking of grinding down the bridge studs, which sit a little proud of the body - just like the '74 here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22267

Here's a forum thread where I seek advice on how best to do it. http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/new-m ... ng-145057/

A salient point was raised about the nature of the studs. Can anyone advise if they are a simple one-piece stud (in which case grinding it down should be OK), or two-piece (in which case grinding them down might affect a retaining lip)?

 

[kakerlak]

What you need, Chief, is a neck reset... The bridge shouldn't be so low that it's bottoming out on the tops of the cups its posts rest in.

The neck's glue joint may well be intact, but it sounds like there's too little back angle. The '71 I sold could have been adjusted low enough for the strings to bottom out on the fretboard and, at normal playing height, had the bridge sitting in about the middle of its adjust range.

I agree with some of the posts on the woodworking forum; trying to grind them with something that rotates along the same plane the adjustment screws turn will likely just grab the bushings and turn them in the guitar body.

 

[fearless]

Hmm. The thing is that a neck re-set is a big job and the neck angle seems pretty good. The action was really low when I got it, but I have sacrificed some of that to fix the fretboard radius.
You might be right about getting a neck re-set, but I'd like to put that off as long as possible