Originally Posted by: pureif you have too high action, won't your strings bend when you fret them?

I see what you're getting at, but on a 'normal' guitar bridge (I'm thinking Locking Trem / tune - o - matic / vintage strat etc) I don't think you could get the bridge high enough to make a difference. Intonation has to be adjusted to compensate, but fretting a note should move the string sufficiently to alter the pitch.

I may be wrong. If you fitted a cello bridge to a guiter.... well, then you'd have a problem... :D