Dude, listen up. It was too hard to turn while the neck was attached to the bass, then I was able to loosen and remove the nut once I took the neck off. It did not break at that point. That's when I could see that the end of the truss rod had the end missing, only a few turns of thread left on it.
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A local TB'er ripped me off!!
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There are people here defending the seller by saying the buyer wasn't qualified to be messing with the truss rod and should have taken it to a local expert... Is the seller qualified to be messing with the truss rod, as he says he did, before selling it? The last person to touch it before the buyer was the seller... not the guy who sold it to the seller before the current transaction.
To bring in the previous seller is just a poor attempt at distraction by the current seller.
To bring in the previous seller is just a poor attempt at distraction by the current seller.
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I have had these issues before, and one with someone very well known. Both of us were correct. I sold a bass that was fine. You just couldn't dial in super low action because of a small neck hump which was typical on this builders early work. We went back and forth for a while, then I just refunded the money and took the bass back. I haven't touched it and still play it a lot.
Truss rods can be sticky issues (no pun intended) and while a relatively cheap and easy fix (often can make the bass better then the original work) its hard to want to swallow the additional cost immediately after buying the bass. Most truss rods can take serious torque, so if a rod is actually broken, you'd have had to do a King Kong on it.
In this case, as much as the seller might not want to, he should at least have offered to split the cost of repair. If he is merely claiming you picked it up, you own it, I tend to think that there was an issue to begin with and the seller just wanted to get rid of it.
Either way, its not TB's fault. And yes, not everyone here is always on the up and up all the time.
tom
Truss rods can be sticky issues (no pun intended) and while a relatively cheap and easy fix (often can make the bass better then the original work) its hard to want to swallow the additional cost immediately after buying the bass. Most truss rods can take serious torque, so if a rod is actually broken, you'd have had to do a King Kong on it.
In this case, as much as the seller might not want to, he should at least have offered to split the cost of repair. If he is merely claiming you picked it up, you own it, I tend to think that there was an issue to begin with and the seller just wanted to get rid of it.
Either way, its not TB's fault. And yes, not everyone here is always on the up and up all the time.
tom
I do have experience with truss rods, which is why I didn't force it to begin with. What does the rusty end of metal tell you?? Tells me that its been exposed for a while...
I know his name, phone and where he lives. I've contacted my cc company as well as paypal, and if paypal uses the aforementioned loophole, my credit card company will cover me.
While I have changed pickups, bridges and tuners, I've never done low level work on truss rods so I wouldn't have a clue how to fix it.
If you made the purchase through Reverb's system, then the negative feedback should be removed from this site.
When you described the nut as "frozen" that typically indicates that it won't turn either way...that is what is misleading about your account of this problem.
It wasn't frozen after all, so it is feasible that the seller was able to turn it and make adjustments.
I disagree sir. I first saw the bass here on this site. He was selling it here under the same pretenses as he was on Reverb. Shall I not leave feedback here, simply because I used Reverb's system I make the purchase, rather than just paying him straight with paypal?
If he turned it, he unreasonably forced it, because it was too tight to safely turn by the time it reached me.
Yer he described his turning of the nut as normal and not stiff. A bold faced lie, if I have to say it frankly.
I feel your pain... I'd find out if I were you because you may be stuck with this bass so I would want to explore my options..
It read to me like the seller didn't know what he was doing with the truss rod. I read nothing about measuring the relief, just kind of haphazardly turning it for no apparent reason.
He hadn't had the bass checked out when he bought it, he just okayed it a couple of times and then put it in a closet until u bought it.
Until I bought it. I found it odd that he would adjust it, especially since he didn't seem to know much about these things. He stated in his classified as that he'd had a pro set up. In retrospect that claim is highly suspect.
Sounds like you're going to get resolution. Too bad the seller didn't participate in making this right. Congrats.
Between the seemingly penned-while-drinking posts and the poor grammar due to lack of edumecation, this thread is nearly impossible to comprehend.
Good luck with your predicament, OP.
Too bad the deal didn't happen here like the JPATA ordeal. The detectives here had that kid's mother's Paypal info and his home address within an hour.
Good luck with your predicament, OP.
Too bad the deal didn't happen here like the JPATA ordeal. The detectives here had that kid's mother's Paypal info and his home address within an hour.
Sir, I have the seller's paypal info, name, address, and phone number. As I do not wish to have any kind of physical confrontation or give the seller any cause to get a restraining order, I'm trying to do this in a legally proper way.
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