neck bow and truss rods

[BenWA]

this confuses the hell out of me. i want the neck to curve away from the strings slightly in the middle. do i tighten or loosen the truss rod?

[keloooe]

So you want to straighten the neck more? If so I believe you want to loosen the rod. Someone can clarify this.

[pablopepper]

Does this answer your question?

[andrewdosborne]

Thanks Pabs, nice and clear diagrams. I always have to think twice about this.

[robin]

When looking from the headstock down the neck, "righty tighty, lefty loosey".

rob

[wokkaboy]

nice one Robin thats what DB taught me too !

[Gavin1393]

nice one Robin thats what DB taught me too !

Heard DB actually taught that to Dan Erlewine....

[stan]

so Ben, that would be loosen the truss rod

[BenWA]

ok sweet, yeah i didnt realise that excessive loosening would pull the neck the other way, i just thought once you take the tension off it the neck would just sit in its natural flat position, and that was that

very useful, my guitar is gonna play a whole lot better now!

[Muzza]

ok sweet, yeah i didnt realise that excessive loosening would pull the neck the other way...

Not quite. The STRINGS pull the neck the other way. The role of the truss rod is to counter the string tension.