[GuitarFundi]

New Gibson Southern Jumbo. The guitar's action was so low that it was almost unplayable. It sounded OK with a little too much buzz when played hard, but capo at the first fret would make buzz bad, capo at the 5th and it was unplayable as all strings were on the frets when you strummed lightly.

Used my Gibson truss rod tool to loosen truss rod. Truss nut was as usual on new guitar sticky/stuck. I easily broke it loose and did a 1/4 turn. The truss nut was floaty at this point with no tension on it. I tuned it played it and gave the neck a wee push pull. Strings (and tone) better, but still too low. Another 1/4 turn to loosen and the nut could be turned with a breath as it was under no tension. Repeated everything and the playability was much better as was TONE!!! A big yay to that, but I heard this strange vibration on treble strings that I had heard before and new that it was a loose truss rod or loose truss nut... scared now that there is a neck/truss problem. I went ahead and finger tightened the nut down as it was vibrating around visibly and then gave a very mild snug with the truss tool to stop the nut (or nut & rod?) from vibrating.

The guitar sounds sooooo much better and plays better, but the action is still a tiny bit too low.

Does it sound like I have a neck or truss rod problem?

Do I need to have the nut and saddle raised ?

Confused!