Dewesq55
Well-Known Member
The first guitar I ever built was this all maple teleshape. The truss rod was never set correctly so I couldn't ever get the neck straight under string tension:
So I decided that before building a whole new neck, I would see if I could salvage the original by removing the truss rod and installing a new one. Here are some pics of the process, which is going reasonably well so far:
Step one - Remove the fret board:
I used an iron, a utility knife and aflexible palate knife. You can see it is coming off in pieces because once before, in an effort to make it playable, I flattened the fretboard toouck and recutting the slots went right through.
Here it is completely removed:
Step two - remove the fillet. I used a Fein MultiMaster to saw down the gluelines on each side if the fillet and then pried (or prised for thise across the pond) it up in sections:
Step three - remove the truss rod. It come out easy after I cut the buggered adjustment nut off:
Next step will be to use a router to clean the channel out. I am planning to buy a double action rod from StewMac.
So I decided that before building a whole new neck, I would see if I could salvage the original by removing the truss rod and installing a new one. Here are some pics of the process, which is going reasonably well so far:
Step one - Remove the fret board:
I used an iron, a utility knife and aflexible palate knife. You can see it is coming off in pieces because once before, in an effort to make it playable, I flattened the fretboard toouck and recutting the slots went right through.
Here it is completely removed:
Step two - remove the fillet. I used a Fein MultiMaster to saw down the gluelines on each side if the fillet and then pried (or prised for thise across the pond) it up in sections:
Step three - remove the truss rod. It come out easy after I cut the buggered adjustment nut off:
Next step will be to use a router to clean the channel out. I am planning to buy a double action rod from StewMac.
