Hi folks. I am wondering if anyone knows - are truss rods in PBG kit necks single or double?
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Hi folks. I am wondering if anyone knows - are truss rods in PBG kit necks single or double?
My understanding is they are double action, which is a single truss rod that can work both ways.
Thanks Fretworn. I didn't want to break it!
Yep - they should all be doubles.
Do you know if they use welded or non-welded adjustment nuts?
I'm not sure, but this is what they look like! This is from a bass neck.
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That certainly looks like a weld to me.
Also you really have to admire how far TD will go to help someone out. Pulling the truss rod out of a bass neck is definitely going above and beyond!
Thanks fender3x. But, ERRR, to be honest, I had actually pulled it out a year ago. The neck was a reject with a very bad twist! But I did want to see how they worked. I run a guitar building "club" at the school where I work with a small group of students (we meet 1 lunchtime a week). It is a great way to model and show the action of the truss rod.Quote:
Originally Posted by fender3x
Way to combine work and pleasure. The twisted neck sucks, but nice to have it for pedagogical purposes...and maybe for a scratch build at some point.
I am getting ready to thin my a PB neck just a bit. TD, if you still have this truss rod would it be possible to measure it's height? I have been doing my calculations with the dimensions of Stew Mac's normal size truss rods that are 11.1 mm... but the the one in your pick looks like a low profile truss rod that should be somewhere between 9-9.5mm. I'll still use the Stew Mac dimensions...but would be nice to know if there is a margin for error if I get a little aggressive ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor Davies
Hi fender3x,Quote:
Originally Posted by fender3x
It is at work. I will measure it tomorrow!
TD
Thank you, sir!
The depth of the route looks to be about 9.0 mm. (sorry, but I did not notice the dodgy 0 to the ruler!)
The truss rod itself is a bit less, but it was originally covered in plastic!
I hope this helps.
If nothing else it will help my peace of mind. Using the "Stew Mac Standard" measurements of 11.1 mm for the truss rod my initial thoughts...to have it like my Warmoth Strat neck or Like a Fender Modern C...were pretty much out of reach. So I settled on a Fender Modern V. This would, however, leave me just 4.5mm under the truss rod. Adequate...but not much margin for error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevor Davies
Meanwhile, I have been looking at double action truss rods on the internet. The Stew Mac "standard" has two equal sized rods...but it seems to be the exception. Almost all the other ones I have seen are like yours...with a 3mm bar welded to a 6mm rod. Sometimes this is called a "low profile" truss rod. Stew Mac calls it a hot rod. Most places just call it a "truss rod"...and it seems to be the standard of the industry. So truss rods that don't trace their lineage back to SM look just like yours...except, as you said, wrapped in shrink-wrap of many different colors.
I built a spreadsheet in Google sheets to help me compare different neck profiles. I found myself doing a lot of conversions because most measurements on the web are in mm, except for neck thicknesses which generally seem to be in inches. This was a bit of a pain until I realized that Sheets has a formula that would do it for me. If anyone would find it useful, I'd be happy to share ;-)
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