Did I just damage my neck?

[Matt Liebenau]

If the truss rod still works the neck is fine. Enjoy the cool new guitar.

 

[wysiwyg248]

I'd just make sure the room where the instrument is, keeps proper humidity -not dry- and it is not so hot.
As several members stated, wood is flexible and should withstand the adjustment.

 

[Snarf]

yer fine

 

[Schlyder]

You can adjust all you want. There is no time window to do only x amount of turns. That is a load of bull chips. Wood is flexible.

watch this starting at 11:00 and watch what he does with the truss rod/neck

 

[Grinderman]

No.

 

[Frampton]

I'm sure it's fine. It's designed to handle being torqued like that. And you'd know if you snapped the truss rod or cracked the neck.

 

[SJan3]

Hey, so I may have done something very silly/stupid.

I just got a new used guitar (I'm mainly a bassist but branching out..and trust the options of you guys), a Music Man Luke III...

For whatever reason, curiosity got the best of me and I got a little overzealous making sure the truss rod was working properly while I'm still in the return window..

It seems this truss rod adjusts pretty fast so I accidentally adjusted it from slack to a backbow and back again within about 20 minutes..

It's stable now and I'm able to set the relief where I like it....

Any chance I did long term damage buy moving it from end to end in a quick amount of time? It wasn't my intent by stupid things happen.

Thanks!

Naaa...

 

[Deleted member 271037]

No damage done. Do you think guitar workshops only adjust the truss rod in tiny increments and wait half an hour when they work on customer's guitars and the clock ($$$) is ticking?

(btw, if the answer to that question is YES you should probably never visit a guitar workshop... the result might be comparable to visiting a sausage factory)

Guitars are a lot more sturdy than most people think (well, except for Gibson headstocks...). When something structually bad happens to a guitar it's usually caused by poor quality wood, manufacturing issues or humidity-related problems. You would have to go REALLY crazy with a modern truss rod in a brand new guitar to cause any permanent damage. Vintage guitars are a different matter of course (like older Rick truss rods) but with many types of vintage guitars I would actually be more worried about the truss rod itself breaking (nut/threads) than the wood/neck.

 

[Rabidhamster]

I'll take a free pass! It does only seem to have a half turm or so between the proper relief and the rod being out of range. I can get it into a backbow with about a quarter turn left.

Does that sound normal?

Yeah definitely now leave it alone and get to playing with it.

You might have more than a quarter turn left after putting the neck in a backbend, but it’s not something you should continue to try to test by any means! It’s not normal to see for sure how many turns there are remaining available on the truss rod, the idea is that you don’t ever find out.

 

[wiscoaster]

...Any chance I did long term damage buy moving it from end to end in a quick amount of time? ...

I think it was just telling you that it's working just fine.

 

[Koshchei]

Hey, so I may have done something very silly/stupid.

I just got a new used guitar (I'm mainly a bassist but branching out..and trust the options of you guys), a Music Man Luke III...

For whatever reason, curiosity got the best of me and I got a little overzealous making sure the truss rod was working properly while I'm still in the return window..

It seems this truss rod adjusts pretty fast so I accidentally adjusted it from slack to a backbow and back again within about 20 minutes..

It's stable now and I'm able to set the relief where I like it....

Any chance I did long term damage buy moving it from end to end in a quick amount of time? It wasn't my intent by stupid things happen.

Thanks!

It's probably fine.

 

[songwriter21]

Hey, so I may have done something very silly/stupid.

I just got a new used guitar (I'm mainly a bassist but branching out..and trust the options of you guys), a Music Man Luke III...

For whatever reason, curiosity got the best of me and I got a little overzealous making sure the truss rod was working properly while I'm still in the return window..

It seems this truss rod adjusts pretty fast so I accidentally adjusted it from slack to a backbow and back again within about 20 minutes..

It's stable now and I'm able to set the relief where I like it....

Any chance I did long term damage buy moving it from end to end in a quick amount of time? It wasn't my intent by stupid things happen.

Thanks!

Having adjusted tons of necks, I say absolutely not. Now, if you have to keep adjusting it in the same direction, there's something wrong. All you did is indeed what you sought, to see if the neck adjusts properly in both directions. Nothing out of the ordinary.