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03-17-2013, 08:18 AM
| | |  Replace truss rod nut to a bullet style nut
I plan on getting a vintage modified 70s jazz neck, and i want to change the truss rod nut to a bullet style one?..
how would i do this??
thanks
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03-17-2013, 08:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | | My questions would be, will the bullet style nut fit in the hole in the headstock, and do the trussrod size and threads match?
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03-17-2013, 09:01 AM
| | | those are basically my questions... anybody with the answers to those would be greatly appreciated 
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03-17-2013, 03:48 PM
| | | | bump, please help
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03-17-2013, 04:12 PM
|  | Come at me, bro! | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Downstate CA | | | I've looked into this before for a MIM Tele, but haven't seen any success stories.
What I've gathered is that the bullet is a touch too big to fit in the access hole. My idea was to wrap the orig nut in sandpaper and slowly sand out the black liner. I think it's possible that it would work. The threads are the same on MIM Fenders, but I don't know about the Squier which is likely metric. If so, the MIJ bullet nut might be the same, but you'd have to check first. I ended up selling the guitar I'd planned on doing this to, though.
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03-17-2013, 05:00 PM
| | | | ^thanks for the input
i was wondering about the black lining in the hole there...
hopefully it fits..
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03-17-2013, 05:07 PM
| | Come at me, bro! | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Downstate CA | | | I can guarantee that it won't fit through without some work. First step in the process for you will be to determine if there's a bullet that will work on the Squier threads. And if not, if you can tap the threads on one of the available bullets. I had a Hondo guitar that had something very close to a Fender bullet nut, and I've seen lots of Japanese guitars with them. If you could find one of those it may work, but I doubt there will be any info on the thread size and pitch.
Forgot another thing to consider: The rods on guitars equipped with bullets are longer. Depending on how deep in the hole your existing nut is, it may not even be visible, or hardly at all, if you are able to swap it.
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03-17-2013, 05:09 PM
| | | | what do you mean by "tapping threads"
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03-17-2013, 05:12 PM
| | | | ive read a few articles and found out the squier truss rod is indeed thinner than the threads on the bullet... so how would i make the hole smaller...
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03-17-2013, 05:20 PM
| | Come at me, bro! | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Downstate CA | | | Tapping threads is cutting the existing threads to a new pitch. If the rod is smaller, you're probably SOL unless there's an alternative nut that will work or maybe something like a heli-coil that's small enough if those even exist.
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03-18-2013, 01:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | I was wondering about this too, for my own VM J. Sound slike a lot of hassle. Wht about modifying a Fender (or other, if available) bullet to be used as a non-functional decoration?
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03-18-2013, 07:14 AM
| | Come at me, bro! | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Downstate CA | | | Roll up a ball of tinfoil or you could also spread some brown modelling clay in there and make it look like the walnut insert on a early '70s.
Personally, I think the blackhole is hideous (obviously, y'all do too) and can never see myself owning a guitar with one for the long haul. Petty, I know. |
03-18-2013, 03:55 PM
| | | | maybe ill buy the bullet and use c. lintons idea.. get it to stay in there somehow just as a decoration..
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