danyeo":24jnzypu said:
If you're willing to shell out over 9k over 4 years why are you making such a big deal over 120 bucks? What does their warranty specifically state?
That wasn't the issue here. The issue is that I never got to the point of getting warranty service because the little prick on the phone didn't believe that
the truss rod was defective. The guitar was finished, strung up, and
perfectly playable before it ever broke. He wouldn't even hear me out.
SpiderWars":24jnzypu said:
Padre Bonic":24jnzypu said:
If I'm not mistaken I don't think the warranty stands unless you get the neck with a finish that they apply before shipping.
That's what I thought too but
I don't see how that would affect the truss rod. Sucks that it broke.
Fortunately, I've been able to recover the guitar because I can still do all the adjustment from the heel. It just makes things a lot more complicated because you have to remove the neck, put on strings, remove the neck, put back on the strings, etc... before you finally get the tension right - with that gauge of strings. If you change string gauge, you have to repeat the process.
Normally, you make the big adjustments with the heel. The side adjust is only for finer adjustment. However, the side adjust saves you from having to remove the strings and neck to get it just right.
As far as I know, I can replace the adjustment nut, but
there are two problems. The first would be that I have to find a drill bit long and skinny enough to pierce the broken threaded piece so I can remove it, or some other technique. Second, I can't find where to buy the nut or even the Gotoh side adjust mechanism anywhere. It's not even on Gotoh's website. It must be a Warmoth exclusive or something.
In any case,
it's restored, but without the side adjust. It doesn't really matter because as long as I don't change the string gauge, I won't have to adjust the truss rod for years. I can simply insert a maple dowel where the nut goes and done. For now, I'll see if I can find a nut somewhere before I go with a permanent solution.
I was playing it last night by the way. Oh man, it's so luxurious. The action isn't as low as it needs to be because
I leveled and dressed the frets before the bolt snapped. It immediately bowed the neck, so that kind of threw the leveling off.
I have to go back and tap the frets with a fret hammer to make sure they didn't get loosened, then level and dress the frets again before I can get the action perfect like before. However, since I just put new strings on it, I'll just play it as-is for now.