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taypeng · 03-14-2008, 10:15 AM

I'm gonna quote the dude who made the remark on a local forum:

Originally Posted by Whitestrat View Post
One word before you jump in and die of salivation over this guitar. Did you know that the truss rod only goes in half way? When the guitar eventually gets a bit of back bow, you'll find that no matter what you do, there's always a bump at the 12th fret you can't remove unless you get some serious fret or neck work done.

I used to have one. I got rid of it as quickly as I could after I found that out.

I asked him how he found out about this and this was the reply:

Because my LP Custom then had a back bow, and the truss rod had to be tightened. So, no matter what me or the guitar tech did, the neck only moved upwards and downwards above the 12th fret. We measured fret highest relative to sections, and found that no matter what, the neck only shifted with the neck at the 12th fret as a pivot point. There was only one conclusion to be drawn from that. A broken truss rod wouldn't shift anything.

I then checked with one forum (can't remember which one, it was more than 2 years ago...) and found that this was a common problem with Epi LPs then. Maybe they've changed the construction. This wasn't an MIC one... I think it was MIK or something like that...

03-14-2008, 10:15 AM	#8 (permalink)
taypeng Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Singapore, Singapore Posts: 239 Thanks: 3 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Epi Truss Rod I'm gonna quote the dude who made the remark on a local forum: Originally Posted by Whitestrat View Post One word before you jump in and die of salivation over this guitar. Did you know that the truss rod only goes in half way? When the guitar eventually gets a bit of back bow, you'll find that no matter what you do, there's always a bump at the 12th fret you can't remove unless you get some serious fret or neck work done. I used to have one. I got rid of it as quickly as I could after I found that out. I asked him how he found out about this and this was the reply: Because my LP Custom then had a back bow, and the truss rod had to be tightened. So, no matter what me or the guitar tech did, the neck only moved upwards and downwards above the 12th fret. We measured fret highest relative to sections, and found that no matter what, the neck only shifted with the neck at the 12th fret as a pivot point. There was only one conclusion to be drawn from that. A broken truss rod wouldn't shift anything. I then checked with one forum (can't remember which one, it was more than 2 years ago...) and found that this was a common problem with Epi LPs then. Maybe they've changed the construction. This wasn't an MIC one... I think it was MIK or something like that...