Help!!!! Truss Rod confuseion

Ok i am building a high school shop custom guitar. its going great but the truss rod is a one way stewmac traditional. i knew i should have bought melvin hiscocks book instead of tom hursts. but question the anchor nut how is it gonna work and should i just route the channel and let 5/8 of the rod hang out or should i let a little bit hang out for the anchor nut so that it can be adjusted or what. toms book has a hot rod truss rod used.I'm doing a bolt on double neck Les Paul style With walnut necks and its as I told my shop teacher if need be i can make a laminated neck if i screw up. so yea Help!!!!!.

Ian Supplee P.S I will greatly take any questions because i need help lol.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Supplee on January 3, 2012 at 3:38pm

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Truss_rods/Adjustable_truss_rods/Tradit...

heres the kit that i got how deep does this need to be and what size routeing bit do i need.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Highland on January 3, 2012 at 3:50pm

With that Trussrod (gibson style) you need to cut a curved channel just wider than the rod so that it is deeper at the middle than at the ends. You will need a plan for this to get it right.

The threaded end is exposed in the enlarged nut cavity you cut at the headstock.

You drill a hole for the anchor at the heel end, cut the rod to length and thread it install it and fill the slot with a curved spline.

Or just buy a two way rod

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Permalink Reply by Murray MacLeod on January 3, 2012 at 4:42pm

I have often wondered about the necessity of routing a curved channel for the single action truss rod.

It seems to me that as long as the rod is installed underneath the center of mass of the neck, it would work just as well if it were installed in a straight channel.

It's still going to exert the required bending force when tightened ...