Bullet truss rod nut busted off flush, how I got new threads

[thefishinmusician]

So.......Somebody snapped the bullet truss rod nut off....Snapped the rod clean off at the washer...Maple bound neck, so surgery under the fingerboard was out...I've seen the truss rod rescue kit, and have made my own, but there was no room for that...Thought about routing the heel behind the anchor, and removing and replacing the rod...Then a lightbulb turned on in my pointed little head...The anchor was visible, luckily, and I decided to remove some wood in front of the anchor and try to shove it forward enough to get some thread....Two holes drilled in front of the anchor hogged out enough wood to get in with some small chisels and make room to move it....It worked !...A heat press to staighrten the neck, and take care of the initial problem, and make it so the rod didn't have to work so hard, and replaced the bullet nut, and bingo...All fine and good !...Just thought I'd share this...

[Mike Kolb]

Innovative thinking, that's for sure. I probably would've been sweating bullets trying to route-out the skunkstripe and going for a replacement, but you thought a little further and saved an otherwise horrific situation. Good work.

[thefishinmusician]

I was thinking of routing the wood behind the anchor and pulling the rod, but thought the chances of getting it to poke back out of the headstock end looked pretty grim...

[Russell Vance]

So, you, uh, Dodged a Bullet.........(groan).

[Kerry Krishna]

Pretty amazing fix! Thanks for sharing this...KK...

[thefishinmusician]

Ouch !

[Pierre-Antoine Roiron]

Great fix, thanks!

[Paul Verticchio]

An excellent "thinking outside the box" fix.  If I ever run across a similar situation; now I have the answer.

Thank you sir (: