Guitar action

Post pics.

Side view. Show the strings with a small ruler with small measurements perpendicular to fretboard at the 12th fret.

Million hacks for checking it too. I think a quarter should barely slip under the strings at the 12th. I could be screwing that up though.

Damn it where is Fret Shack. We need a Bat Signal for him. LOL

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I think a quarter should barely slip under the strings at the 12th

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I'm no fret shack, so hopefully he'll chime in. But I would go with this.

Now, for a beginner, playing open chords on the first 3 frets, this probably won't matter that much, but as you get better and move up (down?) the neck, it'll be aggravating. Just my .02

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I think a quarter ... at the 12th.

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seems way too low.

eta: I'm thinking it's more around 3/32nds for low-E @ 12th.... for a minimum.

The first stop for assessing action is neck relief, or lack of it.

Fret the low E at F1 (you can use a capo) and push down the string to touch F15. If the gap between the string and the fret tops at F6-8 is more than one nickel's thickness, you likely have some degree of excessive relief. If there is no gap at all, you have no relief or a backbow. All three of those states are adjusted by the truss rod. Unless you have experience with that, you probably want a tech to adjust it.

That's the first action assessment step. If you pass the nickel test, I'll go the second assessment step.