Bridgehouse

I was bored by the debate right from the start - it’s been raging on guitar forums for years and years.

Actually, I’ve re read my reply to your post that you refer to above. You’ve missed the point I was making. It was suggested that you could recreate the full length StewMac shims at home with aplaying card. I said you couldn’t recreate them or make your own version with a playing card. Yes, you can create the same effect - if you look back through this thread you will see that at no point did I suggest that the StewMac shims are a better solution - or in fact that a normal shim doesn’t do the job. I’ve shimmed many a neck with a bit of card, or fibreboard, or a bit of sandpaper. The point I was making is that you can’t make the StewMac shims at home as they are a wedge which is less than half a mm at one end - up to a maximum of a mm at the other. Good luck trying to do that with a playing card. And before you say anything - no, you don’t need to do that. The shims do a neat job. I have a set. They were given to me. Would I buy them and import them from the US? No. No doubt I’ll get called a pedant, but I think it’s an important point for anyone reading this thread to realise that the StewMac shims aren’t just a massively expensive bag of bits of wood that are exactly the same as a card shim. To be honest, I have neither a positive nor negative view on their effectiveness or whether they are better or worse than a piece of card. They do however *look* better - is that worth the dollar? That’s up to the individual.

Oh, and it wasn’t snowflakery. Frankly I don’t really care if anyone does or doesn’t like the wedges or shims or whatever. It was the tone of the post. That’s not snowflakery, it just came across as rude.

You assumed. And we all know what that does...

Dirty tease. I’d use that cab and head to lay down some chewy thick bass grooves. (And the Katana works best through a nice 4x12 I have discovered - specially with creambacks in)

I’ve heard a few live now, both the head into a decent cab, and the combo. Guitarist in my other band has one too. They are quite simply excellent.

It sounds better too...

I’ll certainly ask. He might even give me the knacked rod to hang on the wall as a trophy

Either way, once Jon has looked at it I’ll be able to report back a full diagnostic. Unless I have done something monumentally stupid, in which case I will go strangely quiet.

It’s effectively loose in the channel (it’s theoretically removable) (Well, not right now!) I actually think either the rod has snapped under tension and kicked out, or it’s bent under tension and kicked out. I don’t know though. Unless I have a strange alien growth in there, I’m certain *some* part of the truss rod has bent out and kicked out the bottom of the neck

Normally neither do I I thought a quick tweak wouldn’t matter and would be quite fine. Mind you, I tried that with Mrs B and got a slap for that too

In a dual action rod there’s a straight bar and a rod underneath that’s under tension.

Here’s a dual action rod: They are under constant tension one way or another. I could imagine that if that weld failed or the metal block then that would be pretty catastrophic

No. Thankfully not.

@Woodinblack - it’s not a standard rod. It’s an ABM dual action - although I can’t see in, I suspect that one of the multiple bits of the rod has come off the main part under tension and forced its way out towards the back of the neck. There’s always at least one rod under tension with a dual action.

Er, I’m about to leave the house and drive to Gatwick for an early morning 14 hour flight to the Caribbean. Urk.

Neither had I. But I’ve now seen and heard one.

Edited because it seems everything inanimate hates me at the moment

He doesn’t have an office in Peckham you know

Haha I suspect it will be “Ah, yes, you are a cack-handed idiot”

It’ll get fixed and I’m sure Jon will do a stellar job. It’s funny how our emotions are affected by stuff though - I don’t know whether I would actually trust it live again...

Agreed - don’t let this put you off a Shuker - they are sublime instruments. I’m just unlucky with this one and a rather naughty truss rod

You could probably get a hoover nozzle under the dusty end to give it a good clear out then 🤣

I know players who like their action like that - I reckon you could shift that one on.. Sadly I don’t know any players that like splinters after a gig...

Oh, and it was *less* than a 1/4 turn - I reckon 20 degrees max.