I dropped well north of a grand on a used bass from a large, well known retailer. It arrived with a drop more relief than I wanted, but pretty well set up. I dallied a bit on doing any set up and discovered a maxed truss rod about 12 days outside of my extremely short return window.
So bad on me. However, they gave 2 reasons for refusing my return. First was the return window. Right, my bad. Second was this:
What do you think? I expect that a truss rod will get me to dead straight minimally, and a rod that maxes out prior to that point has a definite issue. I suppose that a maxed rod is relative to the player and their setup preferences. If I liked a lot of relief I never would have turned the rod far enough to see an issue, but is there a more objective determination of what constitutes a working truss rod?
So bad on me. However, they gave 2 reasons for refusing my return. First was the return window. Right, my bad. Second was this:
While I understand that a maxed truss rod is not ideal, we would not necessarily consider that to be a defect.
What do you think? I expect that a truss rod will get me to dead straight minimally, and a rod that maxes out prior to that point has a definite issue. I suppose that a maxed rod is relative to the player and their setup preferences. If I liked a lot of relief I never would have turned the rod far enough to see an issue, but is there a more objective determination of what constitutes a working truss rod?
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