AndyR's your man on this one, Martin! :)
:lol:
Yep, yer man here is hacking into fenders with 7.25 even as we speak (resetting necks etc) - so I have two of them here beside me... with a ruler!
I often wonder whether my action is very high - but Jonathan at Feline Guitars told me a while back that it's not amazingly high.
I'm sorting out two strats at the moment. One is 2mm on the high E at the 12th fret, the other is 2.5mm (only just put this one back together, but it feels about right).
Neither choke at all on strings 2 - 6. On 1, the high E, I wouldn't class it as choking personally, but some might... accoustically you can hear a slight effect as you bend, a slight change in tone, but no real loss in sustain (I'm talking about bends from around fret 15 upwards). Through an amp I can't hear the effect.
I use 0.011 to 0.049, and I hit strings pretty hard. If I was using 10s or 9s and had a light touch, I think I could get these a lot lower with the same sort of tolerance.
I'm the same as Sollophonic though - I have all sorts of scale lengths and radii, and I don't seem to have any problems switching between them.
Incidentally - the guitar that Jonathan was looking at (when he said my action isn't that wildly different than many people's) was a Baja tele. That's got a 9.5 radius with 0.011s on it... and I can get the action on my 7.25 radius guitars lower :lol: