Geek99

The word on the street is that stiff neck wood on cheapies can resist a truss rod and they advocate leaving it maxed and left propped such that pressure is applied in the desired direction https://www.talkbass.com/threads/truss-rod-doesnt-seem-broken-but-doesnt-affect-the-relief-at-all.1120878/ @Andyjr1515 thoughts ?

It doesn’t seem to shift much i got the guitar with a flat neck and a slack feeling rod-nut. It’s gone tight now but I cannot detect any back-bend in the neck can they simply stop changing the neck somehow ? The hex nut gives me the feeling of “shan’t” when I try and tighten it more

Wire wool? Gives a lovely finish after sanding

I think the truss rod is maxed out clockwise but I cannot see any movement in the neck - had expected middle frets to touch strings when first and last frets held but not so. Is that possible in a maxed out situation ?

The neck relief doesn’t seem to have shifted. I loosened the strings and left it near a radiator to see if the back bow kicked in. this isn’t for me btw, I have not turned to the dark side 🤮

Measuring the other guitar I think the bridge bar is about 3mm too high owing to the piezo and also the new nut needs to be slotted lower

It’s got too much forward bow, so I’m trying to reduce that by turning the truss rod nut clockwise. I think that’s correct

10-50 light ill check under the piezo, hadn’t thought of that. The other acoustic I got had two toothpick fragments in there. I don’t know why, I got perfect relief and super low action without them the neck may be screwed, but equally it was abandoned and unstrung for a few years so may ping into life with some time

Could anyone with an acoustic guitar please tell me what gap they have at fret 12 holding first and last fret? I still have forwards bow and the truss rod isn’t willing to go further. I’ll leave it overnight. Holding fret 1 and fret 14 I have 2mm at fret 6, I read that it should be nearer 0.9mm am I right in thinking that sanding down the bridge bar is the only way to reduce action ? It’s electro acoustic and a standard new bridge bar so started out too high, just seem to be taking a lot off for the pickup filament

There was a suggestion above that it might be Sen it’s his bass, and his time. Our job is merely to smooth his path using our collective wisdom

Nice one Centurion!

Been done by @Dan Dare

You could have had “w ank Chung” too

You mean “ming” surely ?

Be careful of your choice of colour for your primer, I needed grey undercoat under white top coat to avoid burning people’s eyes out

That’s the magic of masschat not a band, I know

Grain filler I think

Am I missing something, or does the title say “a single letter”? I took that to mean “one”. thanks for dissing my contribution though, appreciate that. the “tell a lie about previous poster” thread features the same general adherence by most posters to the rules, with a mild rebuke to those who pick someone from three hours ago. You’re not being singled out here.

That’s changing two letters sax machine would have worked instead of ABC, how about TBC?

No record player, radio always tuned to radio 4.

agree I’d focus on set up… a BC member near you can probably help if you’re new you won’t really know what you’re looking for in a new pickup if the setup isn’t great you’ll be fighting the instrument when things could be much smoother