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Post subject: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the story?
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:40 pm
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Researching a stamp on my '79 Strat neck that says 'Bent Rod'. Can't seem to find a definitive explanation. Just opinions and guesses.

If Fender found it necessary to produce a stamp for this (I've seen mentioned on other Fender guitars / basses), what was it for exactly?

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Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:04 pm
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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:11 pm
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G'day Molly. I guess it means the truss rod is bent. I wonder if the neck and stamp are genuine Fender. Surely they don't release Factory seconds onto the market :?


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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:16 pm
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Yup, that stamp is documented "out there," but the exact meaning isn't known.

How bent could a truss rod be? And why would they use it in a new neck? Weird.

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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:52 am
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Hmmmm..... You'd think this sort of thing would be documented somewhere.

For the record, the neck is straight and neck relief is spot-on. Action's low (too low actually) and the guitar plays well. So, I could just forget about it but that's not good enough.

Need to know....

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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 3:43 am
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Yes, I need to know now too.
I assume you did a search for "Bent Rod stamp", all I found were other confused owners of Teles, Strats and Basses with the same stamp.
There's a few wacky theories. Here's mine.
The Bi-flex rods were introduced in the early 80s if I'm not mistaken. Maybe early prototypes were used in the late seventies and stamped "bent rod".
That's all I got.
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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:24 am
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G'day Molly. I guess it means the truss rod is bent. I wonder if the neck and stamp are genuine Fender. Surely they don't release Factory seconds onto the market :?

Geez, people, the rod is meant to be bent.

The stamp is surely for passing a QA test that the truss rod could be bent without the neck splintering or fretboard separating. Seems like a rather obvious test to do.


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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:50 am
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OK Arth, sounds right. I retract all my previous theories :lol: Geez I'll just go along with Buxom's explanation. :wink:
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:24 am
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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:26 am
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Actually, I am curious as to what it (the stamp, not Buxom's joke)...

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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:56 am
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Maybe the QC guy was named Rod and they nick named him BENT ROD :lol: it's under a FRR QC stamp. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:18 am
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cvilleira wrote:
Maybe the QC guy was named Rod and they nick named him BENT ROD :lol: it's under a FRR QC stamp. :lol:

"Bent Rød" is also a fairly normal Danish name, unless I'm mistaken.


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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 3:31 pm
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I am leaning toward boxbang's explanation of what "BENT ROD" means.

I don't think it means that anything is broken or that it's a "second" of any type.

My favorite source of Fender Historic Information is http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html
which says that "1980: Fender starts using different truss rod systems, depending on the model."

It doesn't go into any detail about what the different truss rod systems are, but it seems to me that "BENT ROD" is indicating the type of truss rod that the neck has (perhaps it means "the old fashioned kind of truss rod" as opposed to a new bi-flex kind of truss rod, whatever).

So, the bottom line, at least IMO, is that the "BENT ROD" stamp is nothing to worry about.

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Post subject: Re: 'Bent Rod' stamp on '79 Anniversary Strat: What's the st
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:47 pm
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orvilleowner wrote:
I am leaning toward boxbang's explanation of what "BENT ROD" means.

I don't think it means that anything is broken or that it's a "second" of any type.

My favorite source of Fender Historic Information is http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html
which says that "1980: Fender starts using different truss rod systems, depending on the model."

It doesn't go into any detail about what the different truss rod systems are, but it seems to me that "BENT ROD" is indicating the type of truss rod that the neck has (perhaps it means "the old fashioned kind of truss rod" as opposed to a new bi-flex kind of truss rod, whatever).

So, the bottom line, at least IMO, is that the "BENT ROD" stamp is nothing to worry about.


Makes sense. Thanks. If I get any difinitive word from my further research I'll pass it on.

Oh, thought I'd chuck in a pic of the Strats.

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