Rattling Truss Rod on a Washburn XB500
My Washburn XB500 has a rattling truss rod - or at least, something inside the neck is rattling, whether it be the rod, or the channel that supports the rod It does it mainly when I play a B flat on the G string - so, a sympathetic vibration. It may instead be a rattling fret, or a loose tuning peg.
Is there anything that I can try at home - say, a quarter turn on the truss rod, or gently hammer down the frets - before I take it to a luthier, or source a new neck?
I took the bass to my local luthier, who tells me that the truss rod is as tight as it can go - there is no more adjustment left in it. Nor can it be easily slackened off - again, it is stiff.
Only when 4 of the 5 strings are loosened, does the neck become straight. I am told that the buzz is likely to be fret buzz, and it seems to me that it is getting progressively worse. In January, it was "when I play a B flat on the G string". Now, in May, there is a resonance or buzz, wh