truss rod cover issue
During a current build, I encountered an issue with the depth of my truss rod channel and the truss rod nut not sitting low enough for the truss rod cover to sit level with the headstock surface. I kept deepening the neck slot but was concerned about going too deep. I had an ebony blank that would have solved the issue with the added thickness but it wasn’t wide enough to cover the whole headstock. I used a piece of pearwood and dyed it black but it was much thinner and didn’t give me the needed height. I then layered another piece of veneer under it and that did it.
Oddly enough, I am working on another maker’s instrument that had presented a similar challenge. The adjusting nut did not allow the truss rod cover to sit flat. I made a new truss rod cover out of a little thicker piece of ebony and hollowed the inside surface of the new cove to allow clearance.
I wonder if others run into this issue?
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