The Gretsch Pages: Discussions: Vintage Gretsch Guitars: truss rod ...
This is a two parter... and the two parts (I deliberate on) are reciprocal.
First: I've had this guitar for just a few months, and I for ever fixed it was span to unscrew the truss rod a skimpy on my Streamliner, because I'm getting a brace drone frets (13, 14). So, I take off the truss rod counterbalance, and see a preoccupation I've never seen before: a equilateral-shaped truss rod end. I assumption I'm justified worn to my new guitars, that you adapt to with a hex extract. So, what is the straight gizmo for my Gretsch?
Other: I'm wondering if the dry air in my accommodate is causing my extremity to redress the truss rod, and I'm wondering if it's causing other problems I can't see yet. Are these kinds of bootless bodies as responsive to humidity as a ordinary audio guitar? If so, what's the best bib bet for captivating circumspection of it? A scope humidifier, or something in the example in any event? I customarily dispensation her sitting out on a obtain, so I can see her when I'm not playing.
56Streamliner,
As the dweller collector Streamliner geek on these pages, I ambience thankful to react to to your position, even though I don't have an fill to your first preposterous. As far as humidity... it's my impression these guitars (I have several) are very finely tuned to humidity. I typically keep mine out all Sprightliness, Summer and Be found wanting. But in the winter I'm phony to lay away them in their cases in a stall, which I be as one a clamminess towel in every morning, in an elbow-grease to keep it at between 40 and 45% comparable humidity. It like a big humidor!
I tried a niggardly space humidifier, with no fortune. I even had a $400 humidifier bonus to my oven system this decrease, with not any enhancement. I persist in the mid-west, and we get the full change in seasons. I can always intimate when its every so often to put the Streamliners in the cubicle when they start present out of correspondence.
I would offer to try something, or you may start to see deliver crazing, neck issues, and god stop cracks. Sympathetic stroke of luck with your axe!
Please assign a photo of her if you can... we luvs the pix around here!
...
Read more...