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Originally Posted by SicEstVita  I've got a musicman stingray and the neck looks a little bit (but only slightly) bowed - it seems recently to always have stiff action. I tweeked the wheel toward e-string and after a point (not too far) the wheel looses all of its friction but the strings are still stiff.
I never yank the wheel around more than a quarter turn and try to use it as little as possible.
Should I get this looked at or does it just need time for effect? The neck used to be very efficient when I change its action. |
You may be turning the truss rod nut (the wheel) in the wrong direction and slackening off the truss rod rather than tightening it, which is what I assume you want to do to get rid of the bow. It's clockwise to tighten the truss rod, counter clockwise to loosen it.
You should do some reading up on how to adjust a truss rod.
String stiffness is not controlled by the truss rod. That's a characteristic of the string used and the scale length. If your strings are too far above the fretboard, which could be the case if your neck is badly bowed, it will take more finger pressure to push the string down to contact the frets. That'll feel like stiffness.
It sounds like you don't know what you're doing, at least not well enough to improve the playability of your bass. Take it to a tech to get it adjusted and if possible, get him to show you what he does. Otherwise you might just make it worse. Then your next thread will start- "My Stingray is a piece of #%*&".
