Baritone neck with accessible truss rod nut?

[Vito]

I bought a Warmoth custom baritone Strat replacement neck last year. It plays and sounds great on the Strat body I chose for the project. My only complaint is that the truss rod adjustment is at the heel of the neck, under the fretboard shelf. It's absolutely impossible to adjust it with out detuning the strings and removing the neck. It's a royal pain in the nether cheeks.

As far as I could tell when I ordered the neck, there was no option for a truss rod adjustment nut in the headstock with the baritone neck. It looks like that's still the case (but feel free to straighten me out if I'm mistaken).

If that really is the case, is there some reason (I mean, based on the laws of physics) that the baritone neck has to be of the heel-adjust type? It sure would be handy to be able to get to the adjusting nut without removing the neck.

Thanks!

 

[line6man]

No side adjustment?

 

[Cagey]

That particular neck isn't available any other way. According to what I've read, the fact that it's a double-acting truss rod means there's a great deal of pressure on the adjusting end, so they want a certain amount of wood around the mount to insure strength. Apparently, they don't think there's enough on the nut end.

On the plus side, those necks very rarely need adjustment. The things are remarkably stable. I've had D/A necks around here for years that haven't needed adjustment, and these are in a basement in Michigan where temperature and humidity vary substantially. Many others here will tell you the same thing. Those truss rods a basically a "set it and forget it" thing.

 

[Cagey]

No side adjustment?

They don't put side adjusts on the baritone necks for some reason. I put one together for someone here last year, and called Warmoth twice on it.

 

[Creeping Death]

if you really do want that feature in the future you could choose the warmoth headstock style. just depends on what is more important to you, headstock style or trussrod adjust location.