Broken truss rod

[gilwe]

Hi all. The rod on my 60 reissue Squeir Precision has borken, just at the point where the nut ends, leaving the broken part in the nut. The rod goes inside an aluminium (?) channel, and fortunately there's still a 0.5cm of threaded fragment of it left, to where the channel starts. There's also a washer left out, when it's supposed to be placed between the nut and the channel, supposdely over those exact 0.5cm

I took it to a local guitar repairs man who tried to put a new nut on those 0.5cm but it didn't manange to tighten the rod, so when he left the nut after tweaking with it, the rod jumped back to it's initial position. SO he said he would like to tighten the neck using a clamp and than ighten it up. However, there is not enough space to put the wahser in (on

I'm not quite sure that the washer is not needed... does it ?

And do you have any suggestion how to fix this problem ?

 

[Light]

You need more thread visible on the truss rod than you have if you want your truss rod to work effectively. Remember, the truss rod is under tremendous amounts of stress.

Unfortunately, it would cost you more to replace the truss rod you have than it would to replace the neck, so my advice would be to go look at the Warmoth website, and order a new neck. Then take it to a good repair person to have it installed.

If you were tightening your truss rod yourself, you now know why you shouldn't. If this happened when a repair person was working on the instrument, then you should find another one, and get the hack to pay for your new neck. Truss rods don't break unless you over tighten them.


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