Next build - another tele!

[Simon Barden]

A flat neck should be pulled into sufficient relief under string tension, so it must have had a significant reverse bow to start with.

Either that or the neck is very very stiff indeed, so that the string tension hardly bends it.

When I’ve fret l levelled a neck, I’ll then normally give it about 1/2 tightening turn on the truss rod which ends up a good starting point for the relief as I like it (using 10s) before stringing it up.

[Groovyman32]

A flat neck should be pulled into sufficient relief under string tension, so it must have had a significant reverse bow to start with.

When I’ve fret l levelled a neck, I’ll then normally give it about 1/2 tightening turn on the truss rod which ends up a good starting point for the relief as I like it (using 10s) before stringing it up.

Hmm… maybe something else is going on then. With my notched straight edge the neck is flat with no strings.

I read somewhere that overly tight frets can stop it from “reliefing”…