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Murph_Orpheus said:
Howdy folks. Just want to get some opinions on the look of this truss rod on a used Combustion I picked up a while back. I don't have the specific allen key for it but does it look like it's messed up to you guys? It's hard to get a good pic of it in detail but it looks like someone took a drill to it or something.

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That definitely looks messed up / stripped to my eye. I have been told that Dingwall uses some kind of proprietary key size or something, which is why regular Alan keys apparently do not work on their stuff. Their basses ship with included Alan keys which I was told to hold on to no matter what :/
 
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Discount Saint said:
Question - I just received my new NG-2, and I absolutely love the Hipshot tuners that came on it. Best I've ever used by a long shot. I was hoping to put a set of those on another bass I am working on, and wondered if anybody can tell me what specific part those are.
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Pretty sure they're just run of the mill Hipshot UltraLite tuners. Come on 3/8" and 1/2" if I recall correctly.
 
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Discount Saint said:
Question - I just received my new NG-2, and I absolutely love the Hipshot tuners that came on it. Best I've ever used by a long shot. I was hoping to put a set of those on another bass I am working on, and wondered if anybody can tell me what specific part those are.
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Do you need 4 or five of them? I have a set of four of the Smoked Chrome that came on my NG-2. I switched to black. If you need/want them, just give a shout.

They’re Hipshot Ultralights
 
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Mr.Bassie720 said:
Do you need 4 or five of them? I have a set of four of the Smoked Chrome that came on my NG-2. I switched to black. If you need/want them, just give a shout.

They’re Hipshot Ultralights
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Ooh.. unfortunately I do require 5 of them, and it would be a different configuration than the Dingwall anyway, I would imagine, as I need 4 straight and 1 reverse.
 
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Murph_Orpheus said:
Howdy folks. Just want to get some opinions on the look of this truss rod on a used Combustion I picked up a while back. I don't have the specific allen key for it but does it look like it's messed up to you guys? It's hard to get a good pic of it in detail but it looks like someone took a drill to it or something.

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Tough Ron say from the photo but you may still be able to get good bite with the appropriate key. If not, as far as I know Dingwall uses single action truss rods on the Chinese basses and that said if you can remove the nut on the end of the rod with a key or an easyout or otherwise... sometimes the right sized flat head screwdriver may work to remove something like that, you could probably just order up a new nut to screw onto the truss rod. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.


Also, the production Chinese basses do NOT come with Allen keys as far as I know. I’ve bought 4. 3 of them were used though. I do know that you used to be able to order a set from Dingwall off the website.
 
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AB Nate said:
Also, the production Chinese basses do NOT come with Allen keys as far as I know. I’ve bought 4. 3 of them were used though. I do know that you used to be able to order a set from Dingwall off the website.
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My new NG2s did come with tools. Not the same grade of fancy tools with color-coded heatshrink tubing like the Canadians, but perfectly good quality tools nonetheless. Nice, thoughtful touch.
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xnewyorka said:
My new NG2s did come with tools. Not the same grade of fancy tools with color-coded heatshrink tubing like the Canadians, but perfectly good quality tools nonetheless. Nice, thoughtful touch.
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Could that have been a perk provided by the seller? Just curious? Or is long and mcquade hording metric Allen keys. Lol.

That said. There’s the sizes of anyone’s interested. Thanks @xnewyorka
 
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AB Nate said:
Could that have been a perk provided by the seller? Just curious? Or is long and mcquade hording metric Allen keys. Lol.

That said. There’s the sizes of anyone’s interested. Thanks @xnewyorka
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The NG2 basses are shipped not in cases, unless you add a case to the order. So if you did not get a case, maybe the tools were loose in the box somewhere, dunno. The sticker looks like it came from Saskatoon because it is printed in the same font and style as the document that accompanies the Canadian basses.
 

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