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Post subject: Problem with truss rod adjutment, Tele Hiway One
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:45 am
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Hi,
Hope someone can help me.
I've a new Tele HiWay One, but I am unable to properly adjust the neck curvature with the truss rod adjustment.

By tightening the truss rod nut fully, I still have about 0.016" of gap at the 7th fret.

I'd like to take the truss-rod nut off and put a washer under it and try again, but the small hole at the top of the neck (where you enter the allen key) is much smaller than the nut diameter. In other words: it will not come out!

Very grateful for any help you can provide - I'm new to this.

Thank you.


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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:22 am
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The spec is at the 8th fret not the 7th. Follow the directions here:

http://www.fender.com/support/telecaster.php

Allow a little time for the neck to settle when you make the adjustment, it's not immediate.


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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:40 am
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flyingarmadillo wrote:
[snip]Allow a little time for the neck to settle when you make the adjustment, it's not immediate.


Hi, when you say a little time, roughly how much? I've never adjusted a truss rod before (in 30 odd years of playing!!) I've always been worried about doing it.

Thanks
Mark


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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:21 am
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flyingarmadillo wrote:
The spec is at the 8th fret not the 7th. Follow the directions here:

http://www.fender.com/support/telecaster.php

Allow a little time for the neck to settle when you make the adjustment, it's not immediate.


Many thanks Mark,

It has settled in for about a week or more.

I measured again at the 8th fret and it's the same or slightly worse (more like 0.017"). Preblem is something like the truss-rod nut being "thread-bound", and a washer under might do the trick.

Again though, cannot get the nut out through the small (3/16") hole.

Would really appreciate someone's advice on this.


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