Truss rod adjustments

Snags

Do all truss rods adjust in the same direction? Allowing for access at the same end, obviously?

e.g. With access at the headstock behind the nut, and looking from the headstock down the neck to the body, is it safe to assume that to increase relief you would turn counter-clockwise regardless of make/model?

TINMAN82

Snags said:

Do all truss rods adjust in the same direction? Allowing for access at the same end, obviously?

e.g. With access at the headstock behind the nut, and looking from the headstock down the neck to the body, is it safe to assume that to increase relief you would turn counter-clockwise regardless of make/model?

Yes, right to tight (straighten the neck) and left to loose

Paul_C

Snags said:

Do all truss rods adjust in the same direction? Allowing for access at the same end, obviously?

e.g. With access at the headstock behind the nut, and looking from the headstock down the neck to the body, is it safe to assume that to increase relief you would turn counter-clockwise regardless of make/model?

No - most do, but some don't. You should be able to work out what's happening fairly quickly though.

gary_mac

I presume you're talking guitar rather than bass, but just in case, for a short period Warwick used a reverse thread truss rod.

SteveRobinson

Maruszczyk does too.

Snags

Yes, guitar. It's a Fenix tele. Just put new pickups in, and because I had some restrung it with 9s not 10s. They're sitting very low in the nut, and it feels like they're choking a bit around the 8th/9th fret, but the action is otherwise fine. Wanted to.give it a tiny bit more relief, play the strings to death, then go back to 10s as the 9s are a bit too spanky