re: Getting my guitar's action lowered in the BR area

it might be easier to put on lighter strings.

I hope this is for an acoustic because most electrics have a nut to turn to do this.

I thought you wanted to lower the action, but now you're talking about truss rod adjustment seemingly as if it's the same thing. Adjusting the action on an acoustic implies sanding the bottom of the saddle. You mess with the truss rod to alter the neck relief. If your how-to videos didn't go over these things, find better ones.

They are separate adjustments. Here are some excerpts from a decent site:

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The single most common misconception is that truss rods are for adjusting action or intonation. While adjusting the truss rod does affect the playing action, that's a side effect and not the purpose for the adjustment. As a general rule, once the nut and truss rod are set, all action adjustment is done at the bridge, by raising or lowering the saddle. Intonation is affected by action, too, so correcting the action may improve intonation, but again, that's a side effect.

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Presuming the truss rod is set correctly, and that the action at the nut is acceptable, virtually all action adjustments are made at the saddle. (The truss rod does affect playing action, but it is not there for adjusting action. Once set correctly, it is unlikely to need changing.)

I had Jody in Walker do it for me. He also changed my strings to some lightweight strings by Mitchell. It sounds amazing and is so easy to play. He did have to adjust the tress rod because my neck had a bow in it. He then worked on the saddle. I see what you mean, though. I went back and read some of the commentary on the videos. The suggestion of tightening the rod was in direct correlation with taking out the bow in the neck...if it is needed which aids in lowering the action. Mine needed it.

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just curious...what brand guitar do you have? a cheaper brand? the action is usually pretty low on most of the better brands

Thanks!