Recent content by mtglick

Done! Well, mostly. Pics attached. Got the heel reset correctly, it was actually hung up in the pocket so once I reset the heel it was fine. Truss rod working fine, got the action down around where I like it, still a tad high but certainly workable. Only open issue is a buzz on one of the...

Progress update for you, Bob. First, after I got the rod out, I inadvertently re-invented a heat treatment device using a full-size steel garage cabinet. I noticed that the front face of one of the shelves was the same width as a bass neck, and the cabinet is 36" wide. So I clamped the neck...

10-4. Will take a few weeks to get the time in to do it, but I'll post back once done to let you know how it came out. Thanks again!

Well, against your sage advice, I'm going to try to salvage the FB. It came off flat and clean, and stayed that way. Frets are tight, and the neck has set pins in it that will help align the board. It's worth it to me to try to salvage the board, in terms of effort expended, especially since...

So far so good. Got the rod cut and that took quite a bit of the twist out, but it's still tweaked--about 1/3 of what it was before. Got the nut-end anchor out by holding a flat-bladed screwdriver against the face of the anchor, setting the neck on its heel, and whacking the screwdriver with a...

It's recessed about half an inch (maybe a tad more) from the bottom of the truss rod adjustment cavity, but the rod itself is within a millimeter of the width of the channel. I thought about just dropping a 3/4" sleeve onto the end of the new rod and using the top anchor as a seat for the...

Thanks, folks. Sam, the neck is so thin that I'd be worried about routing out enough wood to install a full double rod. Might be able to widen the channel, but given the risk/reward I think it's going to be easier to try to rebuild the rod. Something did occur to me, though--if I pull or cut...

(grin). Rod is definitely under tension, the anchors really aren't too bad, in fact they're pretty clean--it just appears that the rod rusted a bit in the channel, which allowed the plastic sleeving to grab and bind the rod under the blocks. That seems to have made it harder to turn the rod,the...

Pics I can do. First is of the sheared truss rod (headstock end), second is of the heel end (the warp is out of focus towards the headstock end), third is the headstock end (warp more in focus), and the last is a detail of the channel. The channel itself is 3/16, and the truss rod threads are...

Hi, all-- Hoping somebody here can point me in the right direction. I own a Washburn XB900 bass, bought it with a broken truss rod and swapped the neck for a fretless one I had. The PO had sheared off the adjusting nut, so I knew I'd be in for a fight to repair it, but correct necks for these...

Wow--that was fast. Interesting solution. Will have to go find one and play it a bit, but it certainly has its merits as a fast and easy path to done. It's almost unsatisfying in that regard. Still open to hearing about how I would go about reconfiguring an amp into that space, sometimes I...

Hi, all-- I just picked up a cheap 1x15 Crate cab that used to be a 160w Crate combo for virtually nothing. Previous owner removed the amp section altogether, so now it's a 1x15 cab with a built-in 2" space. I'm thinking about finding a cheap ~200w SS head and rehoming it into the cab...