Saving a broken truss rod on a mid-60's Hummingbird...

[thefishinmusician]

I'm posting pics from my recent triumph , repairing a broken truss rod on a mid 60's Gibson Hummingbird.....The neck was pretty straight without tension , so I new I could do this.....I've saved vintage Fender necks going through the 3rd fret dot , and a custom color 60's Fender bass with matching headstock by going through the block marker....If the neck was warped , I would have planed and re-fretted them , but they were all close.....I did the first one over a decade ago , and it's still out there , doing fine...

[Eric Steven Johansen]

Have to say I'm with Jeff on this one. If I were doing a similar repair I would have been inclined to thread the anchor end of the rod and install a nut and washer, then maybe infill around that connection with epoxy. Different strokes I guess.

[thefishinmusician]

I thought of that , but how would you be able to screw the rod into the anchor ?....Being that the neck was pretty straight without tension , I went with this again...The wood of the neck is over 50 years old , and is probably done with moving around...

[Eric Steven Johansen]

You would have to thread the nut to the rod, not rod to nut so you're cavity would need to allow for that. You would need some space for a small washer anyhow. The process would be to slowly bring the rod into the cavity as you threaded on the nut. Filling with epoxy would then lock the nut.

[thefishinmusician]

Gotcha

[Tim Mace]

This is startin' to actually L00k a holelot like fishin'......cool info !