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Old 05-13-2009, 03:52 AM
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Exclamation Does any truss rod nut fit on a Ibanez Gsr100 truss rod?

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Well back in my newbie days in high school i bought a bass that i isntantly fell in love with at guitar center...(i would regret that later on). At purchase the so called "luthier" took to the back and said he'd have it ready in a bit. Later he comes out with it and hands it to me and i leave. On the car ride home i start noticing that the action was reeeeeaaaaallly low. the damn strings were touching the fretboard. *** did that a-hole do?!?!? well me being the noobie that i was i decided to tighten the e string to "fix" the problem because i thought the strings were loose.

Well i ended up breaking the string... i didn't even have the bass for an hour and i already broke the string. So then i read in the manual about the truss rod and how if you turn blah blah blah, well we all know how it works. so i was like "oh ok, i'll loosen it". I was gonna use the rattling of the strings against the frets to judge how much i should loosen it. So one turn on the nut and *pluck pluck* it rattled, ugh... gotta loosen it more so then i did and pluck pluck again, it still rattled, so i continued till all of the sudden the truss rod nut just popped off. then i realized the only thing rattling on the bass all along was the freak'n loose e string tuning machine because it had no e string.

... yeah, it gets worse

so now realizing that the rattling was just the tuning machine i declared my bass as fixed and .... ugh.... threw the truss rod nut away

well my bass ended up with the action of a bow and arrow. well a year and a half later i realized that the action on my bass isn't normal and that everything i did that day was the WRONG THING TO DO. Then someone told me that all it needs was a new truss rod nut screwed in. I didn't bother getting one though because i bearly played the thing. However, getting into college i discovered that playing bass is my true calling so i decided to take a bass class. i went to another guitar center.... ugh.... 2 weeks into this bass class to finally get it "fixed". well they told me that it'll be $20 and it would take Ibanez 4 friggin weeks to get the friggin nut there so i waited. Midterms then started coming around and i wanted my bass ready for my test performance. and 5 weeks had already passed so i dropped by and nothing. they told me to wait another month for the part to come in. So i played my midterm with this highly uncomfortable bass so i sayed to myself," eh, it'll be ready for finals". So now finals are coming around and no part at guitar center. So i did a little online research and realized truss rod nuts only cost 5-10 bucks!?!?!?

AAAAAAGH

SO LONG STORY SHORT!
Can any of these purchasable truss rod nuts fit in an Ibanez Gsr100 neck. or do i need a certain size that only Ibanez has.

Judging from the Google shopping pages, i remember it sort of looked like a fender american standard truss rod nut.

thanks in advance

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Old 05-13-2009, 05:01 AM
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Well back in my newbie days in high school i bought a bass that i isntantly fell in love with at guitar center...(i would regret that later on). At purchase the so called "luthier" took to the back and said he'd have it ready in a bit. Later he comes out with it and hands it to me and i leave. On the car ride home i start noticing that the action was reeeeeaaaaallly low. the damn strings were touching the fretboard. *** did that a-hole do?!?!? well me being the noobie that i was i decided to tighten the e string to "fix" the problem because i thought the strings were loose.

Well i ended up breaking the string... i didn't even have the bass for an hour and i already broke the string. So then i read in the manual about the truss rod and how if you turn blah blah blah, well we all know how it works. so i was like "oh ok, i'll loosen it". I was gonna use the rattling of the strings against the frets to judge how much i should loosen it. So one turn on the nut and *pluck pluck* it rattled, ugh... gotta loosen it more so then i did and pluck pluck again, it still rattled, so i continued till all of the sudden the truss rod nut just popped off. then i realized the only thing rattling on the bass all along was the freak'n loose e string tuning machine because it had no e string.

... yeah, it gets worse

so now realizing that the rattling was just the tuning machine i declared my bass as fixed and .... ugh.... threw the truss rod nut away

well my bass ended up with the action of a bow and arrow. well a year and a half later i realized that the action on my bass isn't normal and that everything i did that day was the WRONG THING TO DO. Then someone told me that all it needs was a new truss rod nut screwed in. I didn't bother getting one though because i bearly played the thing. However, getting into college i discovered that playing bass is my true calling so i decided to take a bass class. i went to another guitar center.... ugh.... 2 weeks into this bass class to finally get it "fixed". well they told me that it'll be $20 and it would take Ibanez 4 friggin weeks to get the friggin nut there so i waited. Midterms then started coming around and i wanted my bass ready for my test performance. and 5 weeks had already passed so i dropped by and nothing. they told me to wait another month for the part to come in. So i played my midterm with this highly uncomfortable bass so i sayed to myself," eh, it'll be ready for finals". So now finals are coming around and no part at guitar center. So i did a little online research and realized truss rod nuts only cost 5-10 bucks!?!?!?

AAAAAAGH

SO LONG STORY SHORT!
Can any of these purchasable truss rod nuts fit in an Ibanez Gsr100 neck. or do i need a certain size that only Ibanez has.

Judging from the Google shopping pages, i remember it sort of looked like a fender american standard truss rod nut.



thanks in advance

To tell you the truth, I don't know what size or thread the truss rod on your Ibanez is. I'd take the bass to an Ibanez dealer and ask for a replacement nut. Better stlll, have them replace it and adjust it. Judging by your story, you shouldn't do it yourself.

Sorry, I just noticed you've taken it to a dealer and got an answer. Since you don't seem to be adept at this sort of thing and you could easily screw it up causing permanent damage, you're best off paying the dealer to fix it.

Last edited by 62bass : 05-13-2009 at 05:05 AM.
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Old 05-13-2009, 12:06 PM
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yeah, you're right. i just really hope they have the part in by my finals. it's just that i ordered the part through them around the last week of february. should it be taking that long?

oh and now i know how to fix the action on guitars more efficiently... lol. I've done it many times on on other people's guitars and intonation too. but still tho, maybe i should leave this to the pros...

i'm just overreacting my finals are like a month away anyways...

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Old 05-13-2009, 01:52 PM
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yeah, you're right. i just really hope they have the part in by my finals. it's just that i ordered the part through them around the last week of february. should it be taking that long?

oh and now i know how to fix the action on guitars more efficiently... lol. I've done it many times on on other people's guitars and intonation too. but still tho, maybe i should leave this to the pros...

i'm just overreacting my finals are like a month away anyways...

It shouldn't take this long. Go to another store if you can. I could get that fixed in Toronto in one day.
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Old 05-17-2009, 12:27 AM
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hahahah you know what's funny? GC called me up today. the truss rod nut is finally in.

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Old 05-17-2009, 04:48 AM
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hahahah you know what's funny? GC called me up today. the truss rod nut is finally in.

sweeet
Great. If they have a competent repair guy there they should be able to instal it for you and set the bass up at the same time. It'll probably make a big difference.
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Old 05-17-2009, 04:43 PM
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Great. If they have a competent repair guy there they should be able to instal it for you and set the bass up at the same time. It'll probably make a big difference.
"Competent repair guy" & "GC?"

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Old 05-18-2009, 04:18 AM
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"Competent repair guy" & "GC?"

Wasn't April Fool's Day awhile ago?
It's that bad down there is it? We don't have GC in Canada but there is the large L&M chain. Quality of repairs varies from store to store.
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