Head adjust option on ALL truss rods

[swarfrat]

Tele seemed to be the only straight headstock available with a head adjust truss rod. Its especially frustrating for baritones, as the only option is both heel adjust AND overhung fingerboard. That particular combination should never go out the door without some calling for informed consent.

 

[dmraco]

I know the vintage-modern necks all have head adjust units, as do all the tilt backs.  I cannot speak for the baritone models.  It is a pain in the butt to take the neck off.  However the good thing about the warmoth modern necks is once they are set you hardly every have to adjust.  I have one 10+ years and never touched it through the worst of Philadelphia weather changes.  It is even the thin Wizard profile.

When I set them up it get it PERFECT flat with a straight edge and the side adjuster almost completely loose.  I string it up and hardly ever have to take it back off.  The side adjuster is all I need.

I suspect the baritone necks have a bit more tension. You may want to give it a bit of a back bow when off the guitar.

 

[swarfrat]

Modern w/ Tiltback is the ONLY double acting truss rod they offer with neck adjust.  Vintage Modern has headstock adjust, but single acting truss rod.

*Side adjust mechanism not available on left-handed, Baritone Conversion, Bass6, or 7-string necks.

 

[musicispeace]

I'm big on head adjust just for the fact that if you need it its right there, even if it isn't the dual truss rod.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Too much material on the double to have both stacked rods and the connected housing to fit in the area of the fretboard near/underneath the nut.  The tilt back introduces more material in that area to accomadate for it, but it simply isn't possible with the straight headstocks like Strat & Tele styled ones.

If you look at one of the images of the side profile cutaway, you can see a single rod in place in the straight shaft, and see how once you introduce a foreign object in there, how very little supportive material is left to stand up to the tension of the strings pulling from the tuners in that very critical area.

The only workaround to this would be to add some heft in material around that, which would drastically take the "replacement" neck into a design that no longer resembles the design of the neck that it is intended to replace.

Want head adjust on a straight head?
Gotta go single, that's just how it is.

 

[aarontunes]

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