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 !

[stan]

so Ben, that would be loosen the truss rod

[Gavin1393]

nice one Robin thats what DB taught me too !

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

[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!

[Swanny]

Good info, Pabs! I'm assuming that Pitbull necks are fitted with double action truss rods?

I always had visions of undoing the truss rod so far that a nut falls off inside, never to be retrieved!