DIY - Adjusting Guitar String Height

Yup... #cebudaddy sure knows how to do a little bit of guitarin'... I got this junior guitar bought around 2499 Php at Gaisano Grand Mall a year ago.. I thought of visiting my strumming skill because my pretty daughter is now singing:). My problem is that my fingers hurting after a long time of playing.. so I thought maybe I'd try adjusting my guitar string height...

Here's how I did it!

 This is the guitar I bought.. I think its imported from China..

Guitar ABC's

 This was the string height before... Sorry about the poor pic.

First step would be to loosen the strings... you don't really have to loosen it all the way.... in taking the guitar pegs out, you can use your mighty strong fingers or follow me using a cutter.. you can use a cloth to protect the peg/guitar bridge when using the cutter to avoid accidental scratches. it wont really hurt it, we only require your finger muscles here:)  

After taking the strings out... mark the part sticking out of the saddle so that we will know later when we do some testing how far we have sanded...

 Slowly sand the string saddle... we do few up and down strokes then we test... put the saddle back into the slot.. put a string back in, tighten and test... i won't go very technical but we just need to bring the string height down a few mm. we don't really want to sand the saddle to much because if the string will sit too low it will create a buzzing sound.. just be patient here!

This is how it looked in my guitar after sanding and testing... 

The before picture!:)

Thanks for viewing..