New Bass Player Needs Help with Stingray Setup

[BUC]

New to the Bass Guitar, traded for a Stingray
Longtime EBMM guitar player here, but rarely a bass player. In a reassessment of the herd I traded for a essentially brand new Stingray that had been sitting unused in the case for about 2 years (still has plastic on the pickguards).

So the action is a little high but the neck looks good. I need to bring the action down. I usually do all my own setup work on my guitars so the concepts are familiar to me.

I understand that the bridge adjustment on each individual saddle is the method for this, however, I have probably 50 different allen keys yet none of them fit the saddles!

Am I missing something here? What tool do I use to adjust the saddles?

I'll apologize first if it's an obvious answer. I spent some time using the search function and looking at youtube's but couldn't find the answer.

Thanks in advance! Looking forward to slappin' da bass!

 

[bovinehost]

Have you checked the neck relief? Usually when I pick up a new/used bass and the action seems high, the first thing I do is fix the relief, flatten the neck. All of 'em seem to bow a bit over time while sitting unused. I'd do that first before dicking around with saddle adjustments. Your mileage may vary.

 

[BUC]

My problem is I need to adjust the saddles. I was just wondering if anyone knew exactly what allen key fit them. For some reason I have a collection of allen keys for all my guitars, yet none of them fit the saddles on the stingray. It seems to be bigger than a 1.5mm and smaller than a 2.0mm and I don't have the US equivalent.

I have already adjusted the neck. I have 2 strings at a good action, one a bit too high and one that has just a little buzzing.

There's several links to setup instructions here that lead to 404 errors on the EBMM webpage. I've done a lot of setups on EBMM guitars so I'm very familiar with those concepts, I've just never done a bass before.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

1/16 inch

 

[bovinehost]

Well, be careful out there. Basses are way more powerful than some little guitar thing.

 

[MrMusashi]

or, 1,5875 mm

as for setup. neck relief before any other adjustments.
it usually saves you a lot of work

hth!

MrM