Guild CO-2C Truss rod repair needed

[Cornelis van den Bergh]

Hi everyone, I'm stuck with a broken truss rod, I have tried to get some technical support from Guild, but so far I've only been able to get a list of approved agents in France.  I did take the guitar there but the response was disturbing (the CO-2C is a bit of an odd one with the patented bolt on neck) and illustrated that they probably are not familiar with the construction. Anyway I've removed the neck, but I still can't seem to get to the truss rod - Is the only access to the truss rod by ungluing the fretboard ? Does anybody have any experience with this ? attached is a wordfile with some pictures and an idea to fix it, but I would appreciate all advise.  Oh by the way the, the quote by the luthier was 850$, so I'm motivated to roll up my sleeves.

For the proposed repair job I would need to know what the thread type is of the truss rod & the remaining length of the thread on the truss rod.... does anybody know ?

Thank you all for your support.

[Joshua Levin-Epstein]

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Truss_rods/Special_tools_for:_Truss_rod...

http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Luthier/Technique/TrussRods/BrokenR...

 

Cornelis,

 

At this stage you should not need to remove the ftruss rod. Please look at the attached links. Frank's article shows how he repairs such a problem and Stewart McDonald makes the tools. I have never spoken directly to Pierre-Antoine Roiron, nor am I familiar with French Geography, but I've seen examples of Pierre-Antoine's work and I'd bet he can do the repair. And he's on the right continent.

 

Joshua

 

[Cornelis van den Bergh]

Hi Joshua, thank you very much for the leads, I will follow up & let you know. Very pleased that this kind of repair work has successfully been done already.

[Cornelis van den Bergh]

Hi Joshua.  I've made some tools to do the job myself, and the truss rod has been repaired.  The bolt on neck design is beautifully done by Guild.  I now need to set up the guitar correctly as the action is horrible, so I'm now looking around for nut files...