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Just a quick update here, I’m pre-heating the oven. We’ll see what happens.

Well, I don't honestly remember what condition I left the truss rod in after I leveled the frets, but it seems likely I screwed this up by not knowing that was a dangerous thing to do.  Sometimes you learn the hard way.  I'm going to live with it as is for now.  Maybe I'll learn to play slide...

Nevermind, it was right under my nose

Can someone enlighten me as to where on the Warmoth site the guidance about not adjusting the truss rod without stringing it up is? I never saw that and I'd like to educate myself.

Okay, I put a straight edge on the frets and I get the same answer, frets are quite level and there's no relief in middle frets.  I had leveled the frets and checked them all with a fret rocker months ago.  But even if my frets all suck, I should still be able to create neck relief with the...

Okay, I just double checked that I have the truss rod cranked all the way counterclockwise, tuned, and put the notched straight edge on the board and I could not get a feeler gauge under it at 8 or 12. It's nearly perfectly flat.  Am I hosed?

Eastern Washington state, so moderate humidity.  I don't have issues with my other guitars.  They typically change tuning by half a semi-tone when the weather changes, and I've never had to adjust my truss rods once they're set, at least not for my lousy playing. And my wizard seems to have...

Okay, I'll try to answer in order: Am I turning it the right way?  If I crank it all the way clockwise, I get a back bow, so I think so. I did level the frets myself sometime around December.  I adjusted the neck flat using a notched straight edge and then used a fretguru sanding bar and then...

I should probably add that I special ordered the strat body with a tele neck slot, so yes, it’s supposed to be a tele neck on a strat body. Don’t judge, it’s an option right there on the website.

I bought Warmoth neck and body about 10 months ago, but my project got put on the back burner until last week.  I finally put it all together and everything is fantastic except the setup.  I have the truss rod cranked all the way counterclockwise, but I have almost no neck relief.  I’ve had to...