Ricky 4000

I think the temptation may be to take too much wood off, because visually, the proportions of the Telebass / early P headstock come partly from the wider 40mm nut... so I'd maybe just take the lower hump down a bit, but what do I know? (rhetorical).

Is that Jazz width at the nut, rather than P?

One of the 'dark arts', truss rods are, if you ask me. (don't ask me though)

I don't own a smart palette knife like yours, Stew...

Fab. I should be following your steps with my JHS Vintage maple neck that suffered a snapped TR. It's in a box here somewhere...

I wonder if there's room to get a two way truss rod in there, or even if that would be a good idea. It's all fascinating to me...

All of that, for this: 😄

You could have been a producer. You wouldn't have to sing, and you could have changed the Detroit sound to something 'better' ... 😄

Moloko. What a mess this was. The remix! Balance in the galaxy was restored...

Good call on not trying to get another nut to fit on there. Its proper mangled. Hindsight a speciality. 👍

Wow, what a finish! 😎 (said the actress to the bishop).

(Yeah, it sounds happy enough. Reminds me of Haircut 100) (I can't actually remember one Prefab Sprout tune, from all their 10-odd albums and Mercury prizes)

That was the same Aztec Camera song. 😄

Ah, so there's not much threaded end left on the rod, I suppose... Actually, from that pic -- the strings were still on... is there a bit of rod sticking out now the strings are off?

But the rod shouldn't turn. You should just need a nut on there so you can put the neck under some tension against the string pressure...?

I think that was Aztec Camera.

Wow...

That would have been a nice gig. The guy they did hire didn't seem very slappy either.

Yeah, go on. We won't say anything.

Seriously though, is there a cheap way to remove a 'polo mint' of the wood around the snapped rod? glass paper stuck onto the end of a bit of dowel with the center hollowed out... ? spin that up in a drill ...? you'd only have to go deep enough to get a slim nut and washer on the end... I assume there would be plenty of depth of wood there... Might need to carefully file the snapped end of the rod to accept a nut... @Reggaebass -- would that be likely to work at all?

:: taps foot ::

That's great In my view, there's nothing great, good or bad about slapping. There's just great, good and bad bass players 👍

Welcome, Col.