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08-19-2011, 01:59 PM
| | | | Who invented the truss rod?
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I think it's a brilliantly simple idea.
Would it have been Leo Fender? |
08-19-2011, 02:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | ^ US patent 1446758, Thaddeus McHugh, "Neck for musical instruments", issued 1923-02-27 — first patent known on truss rod. Note that the diagram in McHugh's patent document shows an incorrect design for the truss rod channel. The channel is shallower in the middle, causing the truss rod to be installed with a backbow. Tightening the rod will increase neck relief, acting in concert with string tension, rather than reduce relief in opposition to string tension. |
08-19-2011, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | It was invented by Dr. Cornelius Truss. Hence the name...  |
08-19-2011, 02:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Adjustable truss rods were around WAY before Leo was making instruments. Gibson had them in their guitars for ages.
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08-19-2011, 03:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | The very earliest Fender guitars didn't have truss rods, in fact. They were added after the many of the first batch of Esquires developed bent necks. This was in 1950. |
08-19-2011, 03:43 PM
|  | Bassish | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: USA, CA, Sacramento Metro area | | | I'm pretty sure it came about whenever steel string guitars started to get popular.
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08-19-2011, 07:15 PM
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08-19-2011, 07:22 PM
| | | | The Wiki has it right: Gibson. |
08-19-2011, 11:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi. Quote:
Originally Posted by Dickie_uk I think it's a brilliantly simple idea.
Would it have been Leo Fender? | Brilliantly simple in manufacturing terms, not so much in the application it's intended for.
Martin had it better with the "non-compressing" rod. AFAIK Leo didn't invent pretty much anything, like any brilliant engineer he adapted (stole in a sense) a bunch of old inventions and bundled them into a revolutionary concept that set a new standard to instrument manufacturing.
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08-20-2011, 01:34 AM
| | | | i wanna say that lloyd loar from gibson gets the credit here, if not for the actual patent, then for the successful implementation in the early '20s.
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08-20-2011, 04:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Melnibone | | Truss rod - WikiPeter, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Cornelius Truss. Stemming from his work with penile implants and his love for musical instruments. This same work/love combination brought about the term "woody". |
08-20-2011, 05:26 AM
| | | | I thought it was Rod Truss...on the patent application he wrote his name as ...Truss, rod. and it was misinturpeted |
08-21-2011, 01:36 PM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | Ted McHugh was issued the patent, Loar improve it, but unfortunately neither invented it. The truss rod goes back to the building of the aquaducts in the Roman empire. McHugh just took a common engineering principle and applied it to musical instruments. If anyone here actually cares about anything beyond common knowledge.  |
08-21-2011, 01:49 PM
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09-18-2011, 12:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oracle, Arizona | | | Many folks wouldn't believe how old the "electric guitar / bass" is....and who actually invented and worked on the the concept.
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09-18-2011, 12:51 PM
| | | | I think it was invented by Rodney Trussenstein, but I can be wrong since I like to make things up...
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