stormin1155
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I posted this over in Tech Shop, but traffic is pretty lite over there, so I'm putting it out here too..
I have a customer's mid '70s D-35 in my shop for a lot of work... bridge replacement, neck reset, cracks, headstock break, binding, frets.... Well I got it all back together, strung it up, doing the setup, and the truss rod won't straighten the neck. Nut turns... everything seems ok, but neck doesn't move. When I was steaming the neck joint, I noticed steam coming out of the truss rod opening by the headstock, and the whole neck got warm. This wasn't for an extended period. I only had to apply steam for 4 minutes to get the neck off, but I'm wondering if something happened in there...
What type of truss rod did Guild use in those? Simple rod in curved channel, or one of those straight ones encased in aluminum? I had one of the aluminum ones fail on a guitar because it got glued solid in the channel, and they have to move freely to work. I've never had a simple curved rod one fail other than breaking.
I have a customer's mid '70s D-35 in my shop for a lot of work... bridge replacement, neck reset, cracks, headstock break, binding, frets.... Well I got it all back together, strung it up, doing the setup, and the truss rod won't straighten the neck. Nut turns... everything seems ok, but neck doesn't move. When I was steaming the neck joint, I noticed steam coming out of the truss rod opening by the headstock, and the whole neck got warm. This wasn't for an extended period. I only had to apply steam for 4 minutes to get the neck off, but I'm wondering if something happened in there...
What type of truss rod did Guild use in those? Simple rod in curved channel, or one of those straight ones encased in aluminum? I had one of the aluminum ones fail on a guitar because it got glued solid in the channel, and they have to move freely to work. I've never had a simple curved rod one fail other than breaking.