Vito89

Thank you for your contribution 🙂 yes, probably 😅 Well, it could be, but the truss rod seemed to be adjusted well. Thank you for the advice. This inspires a lot of confidence in me. The perfect thing would be to find both the 50's and the Standard (with a right setup) in a shop and choose the one I like best. Unfortunately in Italy it is very difficult to find this situation 😅 I hadn't thought about this. But I can tell you that I waited 4-5 days before sending it back and the situation hasn't changed at all since it arrived. And ****, unfortunately I didn't take any photos. I'm sorry 😭 Thank you so much for this suggestion. I confess that the entire playlist made by Jim is among my favorites and I watch them several times. I watched this video on this occasion too just to make sure that what I saw was wrong with the guitar I received wasn't just in my head. And basically in this video Jim confirmed it for me. Thank you for your words. I thought I was the strange one who couldn't play such irrationally high actions 🤣

I'd say vibration/rattle. Exactly, it was an online purchase. Yes, I measured the gap from the top of the fret to te bottom of the string at 12th fret. Thanks for your point of view. Yes, maybe a setup would have solved everything but I didn't feel like risking it, but if they all come like this from the factory then maybe with the next one I'll be more confident and I'll go with a setup. The fact is, it's not easy to gauge whether you like an instrument if the setup is so disastrous. Overall the nut was adjusted very well! Thank you for your reply. it is very useful to me. Well yes. this is also why I decided not to lower the action. I was afraid that if I did it the guitar wouldn't play anymore. But more than 8/64 high and low really seems like a lot to me... or not? Furthermore, I have had a Chinese acoustic guitar set with (even too) low action for 15 years and it sounds a lot the same, so... I expect at least the same from a Gibson. and then why in the specifications that come with the guitar do they write that they have set it with a super low action?

Hello everyone, I'm Vito from Italy! 🙂

Hi everyone, I purchased a new 1950's Gibson J-45. As soon as I opened it, it seemed perfect and wonderful in every way, apart from the excessively striped rosewood of the fretboard. Once I picked it up, however, I immediately noticed an action that was really too high (more than 8/64 at low E and more than 6/64 at high E) which made it really unplayable and therefore didn't even make me understand if I could I feel comfortable with its not-so-small neck. The sensation was to playing a very hard guitar; which is very strange for a J-45, which should be a very soft guitar (at least as far as I know). Such a high action seemed very strange to me also because in the documents that arrived with the guitar, quality control wrote that the action on that guitar had been adjusted to 5/64 on the low E and 3/64 on the high E (maybe even too low). I thought the neck had moved during transport, but I checked that too and found it to be perfect. In the end I had to send it back. Maybe it would have been enough to lower the bridge saddle, but I was afraid that doing so might cause other problems and at that point I wouldn't be able to return it. Also, playing single notes on the low E string produced a strange resonance from the guitar body. Would lowering the action have increased it? would it disappear? I'll never know. What I would like to ask you is if any of you have had similar experiences purchasing this new guitar. Also because I would really like a Gibson J-45 and in the future I will definitely try to buy it again (perhaps the standard version which has a slightly thinner neck), so I would like to understand if I find myself in the same situation and how I should behave. Thank you so much everyone!