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Wouldnt mind it a bit lower, but it’s a Taylor and I’m not going to faff around with anything other than the truss road a tiny bit, unless I can find a local Taylor tech who knows what they are doing with neck shims etc.
As a sanity check just now, I measured the relief on my Angel (which plays beautifully) at 0.2mm. The others are all around about that mark. Action on the Angel (measured at the 12th fret) is 2.1mm (bass) and 1.75mm (treble)
EDIT: but there may be various other "usual ways" I'm not familiar with.
For me - Martin OM28 2.25. Yamaha FG5 also 2.25. Just measured them. Both with Martin Monel strings 12 gauge (MM12).
I know you don't particularly want to know other details fastonebaz but, for me, gauge too is fundamental to action. If I go over 12's I find the action just too hard when I've tried to do it over the years. It must be the strength of my fingers or the hardness of the fingertip calluses or something but I just find it uncomfortable - even on longer scale length instruments. Less than 12 and the action's fine but my tone goes thin.
Everybody is going to be different and that's one of the fascinating things about acoustic playing but probably everyone should be aware of the parameters involved as they evolve as a player, be able to measure (or judge) them, and then know which parameters can be altered and how. As regards action, I have taught myself to be able to adjust saddle height, neck relief and nut slot height on a new instrument and I think that's better than having a luthier or techy do it because I have the ability to measure, adjust and reassess it all myself, as opposed to just giving rough guidance as to what you want and hoping it comes back "better".
That can be a long journey, for me years. A forum like FB and threads like this can speed up the process!
But as I have said above, everyone's different and many will contradict me.
If your relief is at a level where you're thinking 1.3mm is more normal than 0.3mm you might want to start there before you do anything with your saddle!
Fret the where the neck meets the body AND the 1st fret (use a capo on 1st fret so you're not using up all your hands!)