Maruszczyk elwood trussrod....works in reverse!!

[ebenezer]

Well, i have recently bought a lovely ellwood 5a....thought i would give it a quick set-up and discovered the trussrod seems to work in reverse!.....is this normal?

[ezbass]

Yes it is, been there, done that.

[falling_in2_infinity]

oh man, that would freak me out!

 

I wonder, how many other basses have this?

[ebenezer]

Thanks for that.... weird, but seems to work well....am I right in assuming it is a dual action trussrod?

[ezbass]

Just single action AFAIK, but I could be wrong. My 2 never seem to need any more than an eighth turn to compensate for any fluctuations.

[dclaassen]

Pedulla did this as well.

[4000]

The Seis I’ve had worked in reverse, but I know Martin went to a different rod type at some stage so don’t know if they still do. 

[LeftyJ]

3 hours ago, ebenezer said:

Thanks for that.... weird, but seems to work well....am I right in assuming it is a dual action trussrod?

Maruszczyk still uses compression truss rods I think. 

[pierreganseman]

On 19/01/2022 at 17:51, ebenezer said:

Thanks for that.... weird, but seems to work well....am I right in assuming it is a dual action trussrod?

sure is dual action 

 

yes normal , it's their own design , reverse to fender 

[warwickhunt]

Some 80's / early 90's Warwicks are like this.  I always go a touch at a time and never assume it is going to be righty tighty.

[Jeffb28451]

Yep, normal M bass reverse rod. It’s made quite clear in enclosed manuals and a few places on line, but if you don’t get a manual w a  used one and don’t somehow  learn about it on line, you could very likely have a problem, especially if you just crank away all in one sitting.

 

Now, none of us would ever do anything like, would we?

[andruca]

Yep, it did freak me out the first time I set my Jake 5a up. Found this setup video by Adrian himself with a warning about that (8:20 on). Made very sure to let the new owner know when I sold her.

 

 

Edited February 10, 2022 by andruca

[basexperience]

I just bought an Elwood 5a absolution on this very site from @Quent who was kind enough to make sure I knew about this too. 
 

I wonder why reverse truss rods exist? None of the basses I have currently have one, this’ll be the first. Fascinating. I didn’t even know they were a thing!

[Hellzero]

2 hours ago, basexperience said:

I wonder why reverse truss rods exist?

Don't you drive on the left side of the road?

 

Don't you use left thread?

 

Don't you use imperial system?

 

Didn't you put the positive of batteries to the ground?

 

Strange to ask such a question, no?

[Chienmortbb]

16 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Don't you drive on the left side of the road? Yes. It is the sensible way.

 

Don't you use left thread? No. M Coarse.

 

Don't you use imperial system? No The UK adopted the SI/Metric system of measurements in 1971.

 

Didn't you put the positive of batteries to the ground? How absurd, this is a stupid idea

 

Strange to ask such a question, no?

 

[Hellzero]

Why do you take it personally?

[Hellzero]

Just for the record @Chienmortbb:

 

https://mossmotors.com/how-to-positive-or-negative-ground

 

And what I wrote were just facts as I don't care what you use as long as you don't pretend they are the only correct options.

 

These were just to demonstrate that there's no right option, so a truss rod is not working in reverse, but is a left or right thread working system and both are totally correct.

 

Got it?

[tauzero]

1 minute ago, Hellzero said:

Just for the record @Chienmortbb:

 

https://mossmotors.com/how-to-positive-or-negative-ground

 

And what I wrote were just facts as I don't care what you use as long as you don't pretend they are the only correct options.

 

I don't think cars or motorcycles have been positive ground for about 50 years.

 

However, I have both Seis and Warwicks, and they are all reverse truss-rod. It's just the way things are.

[Hellzero]

2 minutes ago, tauzero said:

I don't think cars or motorcycles have been positive ground for about 50 years.

That's why I used a past tense...

[tauzero]

26 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

That's why I used a past tense...

 

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to ask why Belgians drive on the right, then, as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did.

[Hellzero]

20 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to ask why Belgians drive on the right, then, as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic

 

If you read it, you'll notice that right hand traffic is the most common worldwide by a huge margin.

 

You'll also notice that in ancient times people were driving in the middle of the road and when crossing, they kept the ... right side of the road, so please stop with this absurd assertions.

 

And once again U.K. was, is and will always be in Europe, but decided to get out of the EEC, which is something different.

[neepheid]

Do we not drive on the left in order to keep our right hand free for swinging swords at people?

[ped]

4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Do we not drive on the left in order to keep our right hand free for swinging swords at people?

 

I know I do!

 

I was reading up about it recently in fact, and it's quite interesting how different systems developed due in part to the types or roads available and the sorts of loads being transported. I tend to drive roughly in the middle and judge each inbound vehicle on a case by case basis.

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, Hellzero said:

And once again U.K. was, is and will always be in Europe, but decided to get out of the EEC, which is something different.

 

I used the term "Europe" to mean Europe, not the EEC, EC, EU, or any other subset of Europe. Sorry if you couldn't understand my plain simple English but it should have been quite obvious from the context that I meant Europe as Europe.

[Hellzero]

It's so obvious that it's obvious I obviously didn't understand the obvious part of the obvious wording. Silly me. 🤪