Learning to Let Go: Truss Rod Covers

[NegativeEase]

Re: Learning to Let Go: Truss Rod Covers

None of my regular gigging guitars have them on -especially the ones traveling in vans across the country back in the day.

In the last decade I've done a lot of flying with guitars for gigs and I've slowly moved to mostly using bolt on neck guitars with graphtech nuts and saddles only -like my Fender deluxe -as they are just not affected by the lower pressure during flight and humidity changes from traveling like my semi hollow and hollow bodies and through neck Gibson style solid bodies. So adjustments are almost never and there in no truss rod cover on my Fender and Fender style guitars. It's just smarter for traveling.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Learning to Let Go: Truss Rod Covers

I set mine up for thick strings, high action, and quite a "bow" ...

cause I like to really SMASH it to be loud, and then just whisper quiet...

-Erl

(and then I just leave it. Never had to adjust something but my old Squier bass, the neck would "give in" after some years

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Learning to Let Go: Truss Rod Covers

All of my builds don't have covers...Fender style heads. But on my guitars with covers I just keep one screw on between the 3rd and 4th strings. Easy to remove when I need to tweak the rod (which is rare).

On angled headstocks, like Gibson, I just like the "finished" look of a cover.

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Learning to Let Go: Truss Rod Covers

I very rarely adjust my truss rods. Maybe that is a super low action thing, but I generally set it and forget it.