Gibson Truss Rod Nut

Gibson don t tend to mask the truss rod cavity terribly well before spraying so you can see that some of the nuts in these images have lacquer on them even over the ground away portion.

Gibson truss rod nut. 16 yinettech metal truss rod box wrench tool for electric guitar 7mm outer dia box spanner 2 1 out of 5 stars 5. He used the threading die from a truss rod rescue kit to clean the exposed truss rod threads. Carbon fiber round truss rod 5 5mm diameter. Now the nut will come off with less chance of binding up and snapping off the end of the truss rod.

Gibson used short taper truss rod nuts from the late teens into the early 1950s. Brass truss rod nut for gibson guitars qty 10. Gibson started using the long taper nuts in the 1950s and continues to use them today. 5 16 hex brass 5 16 length 10 32 thread.

He backed off the nut with a 5 16 gibson size truss rod wrench and cleaned lubed the threads inside it. Brass truss rod nut for gibson guitars. Interestingly these nuts sit lower than the headstock facing so it looks like the damage occurred as the face of the headstock was being prepped to receive. This job used to be so hard that guitar necks got thrown away as unfixable dan erlewine shows that it s now pretty simple with stewmac truss rod rescue to.

The short taper leaves more metal for the hex sides which gives wrenches a good grip. The truss rod adjustment on a gibson les paul is done using its brass nut at the headstock end of the neck located under the truss rod cover funnily enough. 20 20 product ratings truss rod 5 16 hex box wrench with philips on handle for gibson guitar.