Action is usually adjustable

Except usually doesn't mean always. And only within limits when it is adjustable. Or rather, it's easy enough to raise an action that's too low, most times, but lowering one that's too high is likely to be more of a problem.

But if you find a guitar in a pawn shop looking a bit sad, but the neck looks straight, and there isn't too much room between the strings and the fretboard at the 12th fret (maybe 1/4 inch), and it feels like you'd like to bring it back to life, what's to lose? You might get a real beauty, like I did in a Cancer Charity shop for £10.

I used to drop in here now and then,under another name - that's the kind of thing to make one curious. I wonder if it was...

Anyway, welcome back. Maybe you can help settle the arguments we get here about whether the Mudcat is changed for the worse since the Good Old Days, and so forth.