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Post subject: Re: Amolst 30 years old is worth a big maintenance operation
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 6:55 am
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stratmangler wrote:
Folks make too much of a fuss about adjusting a vintage truss rod.
It's easy, and you don't need to detune the guitar. Just put a capo on the first fret, turn the guitar over and undo the screws, remove the neck plate and screws, turn guitar over and lift the neck at the headstock end.
Adjust truss rod, and place the butt end of the neck back in the neck pocket, and apply pressure at the headstock end.
Make sure that the strings are not fouling something they shouldn't be, and flip guitar over again.
The guitar should be pretty well in tune, needing only minor adjustment.

It really isn't a big deal removing the neck screws while the guitar is tuned to pitch.
Refit neckplate and screws.

Right with an adjustment on the neck heel. Mine is on the headstock.


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Post subject: Re: Amolst 30 years old is worth a big maintenance operation
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 12:47 pm
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the Gent wrote:
I asked fender support and this is the answer :
As far as the truss rod goes I wouldn't have spec on instruments produced before 1993 by serial so I couldn't pull up a bill of materials. Asking around though the general consensus is that at that time it wouldn't have been a bi-flex truss rod.

Well, I'm not always right. But neither is Fender Support.
And to my ignorant eyes, that pic sure looks like there is the Bi-Flex…


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Post subject: Re: Amolst 30 years old is worth a big maintenance operation
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 7:10 pm
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The BiFlex was a feature of the American Standard models right from the beginning of the American Standard series.

The only reason I was in any way tentative about your guitar having a BiFlex was because of the possibility that you had mis-typed the model, or misidentified the model. That is, if you had responded that it didn't have the tubular wood plug at the headstock, I would have replied that the guitar isn't an American Standard. (Or the plug had popped out because someone applied way too much force loosening the adjuster.)
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When I used to read some of the wacky, wrong stuff manufacturer's tech reps have said (not just Fender), I used to assume that it must have been a misunderstanding. That surely those people are experts, and they must have said something that the poster didn't understand.

But I've come to the sad conclusion that most of the "tech reps" aren't fanboys. It's just a job. They just read scripts that have answers for the most common questions, and wing it for uncommon questions. If they had gotten hired by Hoover, they'd be answering questions about vacuum cleaners.


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Post subject: Re: Amolst 30 years old is worth a big maintenance operation
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 7:17 pm
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Anyway, it's a relief that the relief is fixable. :wink:

Loosen the adjuster until it stops turning, then loosen it some more.

I have no clue how it feels when you do that. I've always assumed it feels similar to tightening the adjuster, but maybe it's very stiff and only takes a tiny turn to force relief into the neck.

So go slow and cautious. Just give a tiny bit of a turn and check the relief.


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