Truss Rod Covers - Asthetics vs Access

Hmm, maybe I am addicted to the adjustment! I tend to make an adjustment of one thing or another every time I pick up a guitar. I will chalk this up to my own idiosyncrasies, although maintain my opnion that, while small adjustmehts may not be necessary, they are helpful.
 
gball said:
Don't take this the wrong way, but that is not exactly a glowing advertisement for Anderson guitars. If something requires a truss rod adjustment mid-gig, I personally would not consider it a viable gigging guitar.
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"Requires" may be too strong a word. Also, he used a one-off bamboo neck guitar for a while, so who knows!
 
Butt arent there a WHOLE LINE of guitars with NO TRC????? just and OPEN gaping cavernous HOLE-----sitting there........(fighting REALLY DIRTY comments right now) just LOOK at it it is HIDEOUS! GOOD GOOGLIE WTF was LEO thinking???

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unless I am daft (well......) most Fenders do not posses a TRC? --- and many "off" bradn and clones have NO TRC.........yet we love these ......we own these...we play these........


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whats alll the hub bub ........Bub?
 
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eSGEe said:
Butt arent there a WHOLE LINE of guitars with NO TRC?????

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unless I am daft (well......) most Fenders do not posses a TRC? --- and many "off" bradn and clones have NO TRC.........yet we love these ......we own these...we play these........


so


whats alll the hub bub ........Bub?
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I agree, and I think Leo and many others got it right. Gibson has headstock issues! They break, and before they do, you need to break into them!
 
RVA said:
"Requires" may be too strong a word. Also, he used a one-off bamboo neck guitar for a while, so who knows!
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Yeah, never know. I fall into the do what works for you camp, so no way I could say what't right or wrong for anyone else. In reality, it could just be me having incredibly low standards.
 
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RVA said:
I serious doubt that! You have nice guitars that are well cared for. Us basement players have more time to obsess about minutia!
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I do care for them but I will be honest that I don't really obsess over them. I figure about 90% off all problems can be cured with a new set of strings, and the other 10% will work themselves out eventually. I once stuck a little hunk of a pick in a low-e nut slot that was cut too low, figuring I would get a new nut for the guitar "soon" but it played and sounded great so it took me months to finally fix the problem correctly.
 
RVA said:
Us basement players have more time to obsess about minutia!
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There's a lot of truth to that... :H5:

How do you know when it's time to make a truss rod adjustment? Do you go by feel? Or are you constantly measuring at certain points? Do you like some relief in the neck, or keep it straight?
 
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syscokid said:
There's a lot of truth to that... :H5:

How do you know when it's time to make a truss rod adjustment? Do you go by feel? Or are you constantly measuring at certain points? Do you like some relief in the neck, or keep it straight?
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If I hear buzzing where there was none last time I put it away, the usual culprit will be the relief. So I will immediately slap on a capo and check it. If necessary, I may give it a slight turn. If the problem is on a few spots on the upper frets, I have, on more than 5 occasions, dropped everything and leveled the frets right there and then. However, since my fret dressing skills have improved, this does not happen very often anymore.
 
Monster Magnet is awesome.Listen to there cover of Sabbaths Into the Void. Oh ya this is about Truss Rod Covers. Im with gball on this one.Mine are on.
 
RVA said:
If I hear buzzing where there was none last time I put it away, the usual culprit will be the relief. So I will immediately slap on a capo and check it. If necessary, I may give it a slight turn. If the problem is on a few spots on the upper frets, I have, on more than 5 occasions, dropped everything and leveled the frets right there and then. However, since my fret dressing skills have improved, this does not happen very often anymore.
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Buzz shmuzz, if I can’t hear it through the amp it never happened, haha
 
gball said:
Buzz shmuzz, if I can’t hear it through the amp it never happened, haha
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See, there is the divergence. Since I play at home, my amp is rarely loud enough to drown out the natural sound from the strings!
 
More distortion fixes all the buzz lol

I'm with RVA bedroom level volume most the time so if it's bad buzz I will adjust.....typically though once set up after getting into the swamp I've not had many that needed constant fiddeling.......well the SG did........but It was traded off for a Peavey T-60 with a bilaminate maple neck that has yet to need a truss rod adjustment........come to think of it I have yet to have to adjust a SINGLE Peavey maple neck..........
 
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Well....I have 7 of them......Ive yet to adjust the TR on any --- several have been here a couple years now---often times the little "tilt" function in the neck plate removes the need for shims or TR adjustments....
Those necks are ROCK hard and stable I can tell you ---- if you have never played a Peavey T series neck---- you do NOT know what your missing till you do----ask Ol Hackmaster--- he had a go with the T-60 for a few minutes.......
 
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RVA said:
See, there is the divergence. Since I play at home, my amp is rarely loud enough to drown out the natural sound from the strings!
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One thing I cannot stand is hearing my strings acoustically while plugged in electrically. To me, it's like each source of sound is fighting each other. It's either totally acoustical, or the volume of the amp is loud enough were I don't hear the strings acoustically. Isn't dat vierd?
 
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syscokid said:
One thing I cannot stand is hearing my strings acoustically while plugged in electrically. To me, it's like each source of sound is fighting each other. It's either totally acoustical, or the volume of the amp is loud enough were I don't hear the strings acoustically. Isn't dat vierd?
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Not weird. However, my wife is sensitive to noise, or at least the noise that comes from my guitar!
 
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