Telecaster - Resonating truss rod!

fasty · 15-06-2009 08:39AM #1

I have an American Telecaster that I got in May 2008. It was professionally set up in Winter of the same year and has been great until now...

The humid weather has obviously brought about some changes in the neck, and I find when I play it for an hour or so the truss rod resonates inside the neck!

I searched online for this issue and found a few links to other forums where people said this problem is either a slightly slack truss rod, or the metal keeper on the bi-flex truss rod located at around the 6th fret vibrating.

The solution? Tighten the truss rod screw by 1/8 of a turn. Does anyone have any experience of this? If it's something I can fix than I will.

Johnny Storm · 15-06-2009 12:34PM

Just do it, I would say. If you're nervous about it make a mark on the truss rod nut so that you can turn it back later to exactly where it was. If it doesn't want to turn, don't force it.

Truss rod info:http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0033_trussrod.hzml?jrl=20317&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ts0033&clk=123296

fasty · 22-06-2009 09:02AM

Well, the truss rod was pretty much slack inside the neck and took a scary amount of turns before it actually had an impact on neck relief... But... It's sorted now and my Awesomecaster plays better than ever.

Telecaster - Resonating truss rod!

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