Video: Acoustic Guitar Neck Warp

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Guitars older than 1930 typically don't contain truss rods, which prevent the neck from warping. Learn more about acoustic guitar setups and neck warping with expert tips in this free guitar video.

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Prateek Sharma Oct 24, 2010
Hi! Thanks for such informative videos. I just bought a Yamaha, acoustic guitar. Model F-370. Within a week, the 1st string began to buzz terribly towards the lower frets (where the box starts). So I took it to the service centre & I was told that the truss rod adjustment will fix it. When they got down to tightening the rod, they told me that the truss rod was not working! How can this be fixed? Since it is a brand new piece, I am unwilling to settle for quick fix, temporary fixes. Assuming Yamaha replaces this guitar with a new one. My fear is, how will I know if the new ones truss rod is working fine? Regards, Prateek.

Video Transcript

Maybe you're fortunate enough to have an instrument older than 1930, this one happens to be about 1830. There is no truss rod in an instrument older than 1930, it's a relatively modern invention. But I brought this one primarily so that you could see the issue of a warp. We talked about a bow, a bow goes this way, but a warp is something that goes this way. And you can see, looking at this instrument from the end, that there is a pretty nasty twist in this neck. Much, much more difficult to do, goes beyond the scope of a setup in order to address that kind of an issue. Basically what has to happen in a case like this, and this is not a job for the home amateur to do, would be to remove all the frets, sand the fretboard level, put the frets back in.

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