![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than being the big stiff rod that makes sure the neck is always kept to the straight and narrow, the truss rod turns out to be a tool of skill and subtlety, whose minute variations and delicate adjustments can tune the neck to exquisite refinement. A guitar string is fixed at both ends and vibrates up and down in the middle when plucked, so it makes sense that a guitar neck should be bowed slightly in the middle to make room for the vibrations. Well, surprise, surprise - turns out it’s not that simple at all. This at least was simple a good guitar had a straight neck and a bad guitar didn't. Buying a secondhand guitar always involved sighting down the neck, as if you knew what you were doing, and could spot a maladjusted truss rod at a glance. When I was but a young lad, dreaming sleep away with erotic dreams of sinuous, curved Fenders and dark, sweet Gibsons which shamed my clunky third rate guitars, a truss rod was just the thing that made your guitar neck straight. ![]()
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