Hello,
I'm about to build a homemade EUB and I'm wondering if I'll need to bother with a truss rod? It's going to be a fairly crude build. Hear me out here...
It's going to be a short scale (30") made from a centre block of poplar and mahogany laminate. It'll be four strips of 19mm x 70mm x 1200mm glued together with the seams perpendicular to the fretboard. I'll shape the neck with a spoke shave, sandpaper and a lot of cursing, leaving most of the depth there so it'll be a pretty fat neck. Then I'll glue on a purpleheart fretboard and radius it to 7.25".
So there's going to be plenty of wood mass there and I'm hoping to laminate construction will give it some stability - what do you guys think? Truss rod or not?
Cheers!