Fitting a wheel adjustment truss rod | Bass guitar build part 2
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2022
- In this video I fit a wheel adjusted truss rod to the bass I’m building. What are the extra thoughts that might have to occur? Is it easier or harder than a ‘normal’ truss rod with the adjustment at the headstock?
Watch to find out!
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I had NO CLUE that the little dial on my router was for incremental cuts! Thanks for that!
Your life will never be the same!
I can't wait to see this bass finished
Just keep watching!
Ah yes, the terror of drilling the truss rod access. If you're too steep you're out the back of the neck... too hard and fast and metal shavings start to fly
Hate that bit!
Always enjoying your work Chris. For what its worth I just route out under the nut..
I’m always worried the truss rod slides out if I did that!
I have no clue how to build a guitar, I was confused after watching part 1 😆 very much looking forward to seeing the process though 👍
Hopefully all will become clear over the weeks to come! There’s many different way to build one, this probably isn’t the ‘standard’ way!
@@KingBespokeCreations really enjoyed the venom build, look forward to seeing it all come together, no doubt it will look awesome man 👍
if you want to get started building a guitar, get yourself the cheapest worst quality "kit" that you can. You may not end up with a perfect guitar when you're done, but you will learn A LOT in the process....having to fix little issues, etc.
in no time, you'll be ordering wood and creating shapes on your own. I, personally, have never built a guitar neck (yet) I use prefabricated ones that usually require a bunch of work. But using some prefab parts is a good way to learn what each one does, how to get it to fit, etc...
Additionally....I'm not really sure that there IS a "standard way" to build a guitar....you'll find, even amongst RUclips builders, that each has their own tweaks and tricks that they use. I think I've seen about 5 different ways to cut a truss rod channel, for instance.
@@TJEvans98 absolutely right! My first was a Gear4Music kit for £60
@@TJEvans98 thanks man appreciate the advice, iv never really built anything with wood, did recently get a rotary tool with some small bits of wood to practice with, would love to get to the point where I could build complex projects, much respect 👍
that's a very tidy truss rod channel Chris
Thanks bud. I definitely enjoyed not having to cut the access hole!
Nice trick using the vice as a stop. Really enjoying this bass build 🙂🤘
Thanks, plenty more to come!
@@KingBespokeCreations Looking forward to it 🤘
thats a slick fit! and i dont think there will be any difference with you pup mounting hunch, im looking forward to finding out tho!
Cheers Brett👍
Yep. I agree. It won't make much of a difference at all. The pickups are the most important element in the sound of an instrument, followed by the scale length. The wood? Not so much. Too much emphasis given to "tonewood" sound, for my liking. If the body and neck are glued up well enough, they will act as one piece of wood, anyway.
Good info on rod length
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Welcome to the spoke nut club :D
Thanks Mr President!
I'm thinking the body wood isn't going to make too much difference, it's all about the neck material and the hardware/electronics. I really like the wheel adjustment type truss rod, used one on my thinline build and will be using them a lot more in future.
Thanks for your comment. It’s always interesting to hear the great tone debate!
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Under string trussrod adjustment boo! Otherwise great work!
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when we install it did you remove the blue shrink plastic or just install it as it is?thank you
Keep the wrap on 👍
@@KingBespokeCreations thank you so much i really do appreciate
In my humble opinion....which means very little....any benefits of a neck-through design have more to do with the contact points of the strings, rather than anything with the positioning of the pickups. Having the bridge, and nut both attached to the same "piece" of wood, might have more effect on (pick an aspect, tone, sustain, etc.) than how and where the pickups are mounted.
I've mentioned this before when people have routed for a strat type tremelo (vibrato, if you will) in a neck-through design. By routing all the way through the "neck" to allow for the block for the bridge, they've essentially negated the fact that it was neck-through....since the neck no longer goes all the way through.
SO.....it would be my belief that as long as the bridge, and nut, are both mounted of the same "piece" of wood, then the supposed advantages of a neck-through will still exist...
That all seems to make sense!
A thicko here what is Truss Rod please ❤
a device that can be adjusted within the wood of a guitar neck to make the wood "bow" (bend, sort of) in one direction or the other. It's used to create relief, from the string tension attempting to bow the neck naturally.
In basic terms, when you install strings, and tighten them to tuning tension, the wood will naturally bend up on either side, creating a "watermelon rind" shape Adjusting the truss rod will force the wood back straight.
It give us some control back if the wood doesn’t bend how we want it too once the strings go on x