Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

seeaxe wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:48 pm

You asked about the analysis on the neck with composite

Yes! Thank you also Seeaxe! For you informative reply . It certainly looks like I should have the ‘books’ you refer to.
I simply realised, I had not thanked you for such a great reply.
Will.

Richard thanks for your reply, I had not thought about the creep factor over time. On many of my guitars I use a 2 way truss rod so I can dial it out. But for many of my classical guitars without a truss rod it is worth a thought. Yes, on my sixer Bass I have dual (single way) rods, and I think for...

I have used carbon fiber rods in necks with truss rods, and have had no issues providing relief using the truss rod. Part of the reason for this may be that when the fretboard is glued on the rod is close to the neutral axis so it may not really be stiffening the neck all that much. After I was sho...

Hello all, this is my first post here, and I would like to ask a question: I see Carbon Graphite being used as a longitudinal neck brace on instruments that also have a truss-rod - electric basses and long 35'' scale 6 string basses / fan fretted for example. Now, I wouldn't think twice about runnin...