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Permalink Reply by Walter Cengia on June 14, 2016 at 5:43pm

Perhaps a little more information?

How many strings on said neck?????

What sort of wood for said neck????

A standard guitar neck is only about 22mm thick x 42mm wide at the nut with six strings and sometimes there's no need for truss adjustment at all. If you're going to use a 30x30mm neck made of some type of hard wood, you should be able to put 4 strings on it with no truss required.

Alternatively what Ive done in the past is to rout a 6mm truss channel down the neck at 10mm deep and just glued in a 6x10mm flat bar, steel or aluminium and then a fret board over the top, very simple and works well.

Hope this helps.

Walt

Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on June 14, 2016 at 6:29pm

I agree with Walt. If you want to do it on the cheap, a flat bar on its side is the way to go. I use 10x3mm mild steel. It works out about 50p per rod. Extremely cheap and pretty effective. You just need to route a channel in the top of the neck, use epoxy to glue the bar in, then once it's cured, glue on the fretboard as per. I use it for my solid body 4 strings, and it works fine for 6 strings too. Obviously you don't get the adjustment benefits of a real truss rod, but it helps make the neck rigid enough for the string tension.

Permalink Reply by Walter Cengia on June 14, 2016 at 6:45pm

Yep 3x10mm is better and if you don't have a 3mm router bit, use a 6mm or 1/4 inch router bit and glue a filler strip next to the bar to fill the space.

Walt

Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on June 14, 2016 at 9:40pm

Problem is solved. Thanks guys.

Permalink Reply by Scott W on June 14, 2016 at 11:29pm

Here is what I did with my daughter on her gas can banjo. It is a mild steel bar 1/2" wide, set in a routed groove in the 3/4" maple neck with the fretboard laminated on top. I was a bit concerned abou the depth of the bar and the neck, but took my time with it. It works great and it has plays like a champ -- dead straight still!
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/non-adjustable-truss-rod

Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on June 16, 2016 at 6:43am

Yup. That's where I got m answer from. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Scott W on June 14, 2016 at 11:32pm

There is a video of her playing it at the bottom of the gas can banjo album here: http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/egyptpunk-s-gas-can-banj...