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03-31-2009, 04:53 PM
| | |  Did I just break my truss rod?
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I heard a pop while tuning my strings back up. I'm scared, I like that bass.
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Originally Posted by bassteban  we all know bass sucks- we're bassplayers, for crying out loud. :( | |
03-31-2009, 05:04 PM
| | | | neck moved on his pocket?
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03-31-2009, 05:06 PM
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03-31-2009, 05:08 PM
| | | | hallelujah!
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Originally Posted by bassteban we all know bass sucks- we're bassplayers, for crying out loud. :( | |
03-31-2009, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: South Carolina | | | Did you have a string overlapping itself on the post and then "pop" into place? |
03-31-2009, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: A-Town, Colorado | | | Maybe strings sliding in the nut groove? Kinda sticky there sometimes.
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03-31-2009, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Renaissance Did you have a string overlapping itself on the post and then "pop" into place? | That's a chance, I just hope it was something like that
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Originally Posted by bassteban we all know bass sucks- we're bassplayers, for crying out loud. :( | |
03-31-2009, 05:16 PM
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DPA Endorses Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | do you string-through the body or the bridge?
my Lakland is strung through the body, and sometimes the ball-ends bet caught on the lip of the body, until the tension sets in and POP!!!
If the neck is still solid, I doubt you broke your truss rod. Does your truss rod havea cover either on the neck side or the headstock side?
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03-31-2009, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bassman314 do you string-through the body or the bridge?
my Lakland is strung through the body, and sometimes the ball-ends bet caught on the lip of the body, until the tension sets in and POP!!!
If the neck is still solid, I doubt you broke your truss rod. Does your truss rod havea cover either on the neck side or the headstock side? | if you mean a cover over the opening to rod yes on the headstock
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Originally Posted by bassteban we all know bass sucks- we're bassplayers, for crying out loud. :( | |
03-31-2009, 06:20 PM
|  | Don't give a damn about my bad reputation | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma City | | | Had a cheapo bass in my youth that would creak every now and then when higher tension strings were put on it or when the truss rod would get tweaked. It never broke. The noise was definitely not strings popping into place. I'd always assumed it was the wood settling rather loudly. Made me paranoid the first couple times it happened. I'd frantically check to see if there was a crack forming somewhere. Never found an issue with it. Haven't experienced that phenomena since I got rid of that bass sometime in the mid-ninties.
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03-31-2009, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Bakersfield | | | If youre truss rod broke (ive had one break on an ebay neck I bought) when you string up to tension the neck will have an absurd amount of relief, just sight check the relief.
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03-31-2009, 08:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Gastonia, NC | | The modifier is right - you'll know if you broke the rod - you'll have like an inch or so of relief and the neck will look sorta like a bow and arrow set without the arrow. 
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04-02-2009, 08:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | Not every noise is a catastrophe. Calm down and try turning the nut on the rod. You'll know if you get resistance or not.
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04-02-2009, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim Not every noise is a catastrophe. Calm down and try turning the nut on the rod. You'll know if you get resistance or not. | YUP try tightening the rod, if it turns freely you have a problem, if you feel resistance, no worries...
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