How to replace the trussrod

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Hi guys, this is a nice video about how to replace the trussrod, on Warwick basses with removable trussrods (1982- 1996). Enjoy :-)

[video=youtube;xT_iDrcLtKY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xT_iDrcLtKY[/video]
 
Indeed, those videos a very good :) Also shows that working on a Warwick Bass is not as scary as some may think
 
Great video, just wish the inside of my garage looked like that workshop!!!!! :)
 
This is something I might have to perform within the next few years, might the trussrod resonating problem return to my 5 string.
Thanks for the great info. A picture tells more then 1000 words. An instruction vid tells more then 1000 pictures.
 
DiMarco said:
This is something I might have to perform within the next few years, might the trussrod resonating problem return to my 5 string.
Thanks for the great info. A picture tells more then 1000 words. An instruction vid tells more then 1000 pictures.
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+!
 
I'm a little confused as to when the truss rod types switched - this video (fantastic btw) seems to give different dates than what was mentioned on the truss rod thread. That thread made me think my 92 Streamer has a 1-way rod, but this video suggests it's a two way rod.

I can rotate the nut in both directions. That suggests it's two way - from what I understand, if it's one-way, it only turns in one direction, and the other direction is stiff. Is this the case? Or is it really one-way, and me turning it the other direction is just unscrewing the nut?

I really, really hope this is a 2-way truss rod, and am a bit too chicken (lazy?) to take it out and see :P
 
Nope, you can turn the one-way truss in both direction but it can only tighten the neck. If you loosen it, it's gonna be the neck that will move rather than the truss moving the neck (like a two-way can do).

I realise this sentence is impossible to understand but at least I smfqmslfkqmslfqs
 
*head explodes*

It's a '92, and the video indicates that it should be 2 way... I only 'unscrewed' it a little and appeared to get some relief, but then again, my Vampyre's neck is so straight that when the rod's slack, there's a hair of relief, so maybe it's just a stable neck.

EDIT: So, wait, if you loosen a one-way rod, it'll actually add more relief, but it'd be the neck bending under string tension that's adding the relief, as opposed to the truss rod flexing the other way adding the relief? i.e. it'll have more relief because the truss rod's not pushing in one direction as hard, as opposed to legitimately pushing it in the other direction? If I'm right (and that never happens), what's the advantage of a two-way? Is it only beneficial when a neck is so straight that there's not enough tension to bend it with the truss rod completely slack and strings applied?
 
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Forsooth. It the neck is too flat or even backbowed :hamemories:, a two-way truss can loosen the neck way beyond what a one-way could do. That being said, the one-way was, during a time, removable. So you can put it upside down and get it loosen the neck instead of tightening it.

But the two-way has over advantages : much more resistant, obviously, two-way against one-way, so the neck in the end is stiffer than with the old weak on-way truss... no wonder why Warwick eventually changed it.
 
I actually owned one or two basses that needed the trussrod to work the other way around...
 
Yeah, where I live, we have ridiculous humidity and extreme heat in the summer, and bone-dry freezing winters, so the necks need a lot of tightening when the weather turns dry and loosening when it gets humid. Lucky for me the next shift is dryness, so the rod's fine as-is, but I think flipping the rod might be a semi-annual thing for me.
 
thefitz said:
*head explodes*

Is it only beneficial when a neck is so straight that there's not enough tension to bend it with the truss rod completely slack and strings applied?
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ecaxtly
 
I have been told that the truss rod problem just happen in Taiwan?? I had 3 Warwick bass truss rod replaced, but I can see many people just don't want face it...
 
joekickass said:
I have been told that the truss rod problem just happen in Taiwan?? I had 3 Warwick bass truss rod replaced, but I can see many people just don't want face it...
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Apart from being Warwicks your basses have obviously another thing in common:-)

The owner:-)

Have you considered that you might do something wrong with the truss rod?

No offense intended;-)
 
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