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Hmm... according to what's on the Wiki page, i wonder if a combination of heavy wood and zebra (steel and nylon twined) strings would help prevent bowing without a truss...If you can build a neck that can withstand the tension of six strings then you don't need one. I perfer a neck with some relief so I use a adjustable truss rod and a thinner more comfortable neck profile plus I don't have access to big pieces of rosewood or ironwood or ebony.
I am sure you will hear how so and so made his neck from pine and has no bow and never will.So-and-So sounds like kind of a tiresome person...
Installing a truss rod isn't difficult if you have a router, but it adds weight and expense.
Bear said:Installing a truss rod isn't difficult if you have a router, but it adds weight and expense.
Yeah, it's not a problem of laziness, more of I don't have very many (read: any) big power tools at my disposal. I'd love to be able to stay safe, but unless someone has a MacGuyvered solution, I think i'm SOL for a while.
I guided it with Circle & straight line cutting guide, just pressed against the neck by hand... I thought it would possibly be hard to control - no problem at all. Since I was using a too-small width bit I had to take even more passes - that seemed the trick, LOTS of passes, moderate pressure, and (as video says) emptying out the removed wood very often.
I think my main point was that it can be done - don't be scared off. Most of us are learning as we go. Some of us - myself included - are starting knowing very little. That's the fun of it (the learning part, not the knowing little part!)
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