this helped me so much, after 3 days of my super back bow neck I finally got it to sit straight and lowered my action by 2mm without any buzz on any fret. I can play smoothly now thank you so much!

Didn't have to end up adjusting my truss rod. But the video is so good I had to subscribe. Illustrations are perfect and needed for beginners.

probably out of every video about the guitar neck, this one was the best! tysm!!

this video just turned my guitar into a dream playing, warm, non-fret-buzzing lovely ibanez. thank you so much

Really good, clear video, love your videos keep it up! 🙂 Please more guitar setup video like this🙂🙂

I have an Ibanez Hollow Body Electric and this video was great! Did just what you said and the guitar stays in tune top to bottom. Did not have to adjust the truss rod, but I intonated it. Saved me $50 as well. I have a really beat up white Gibson V from like 1984. Still has the Grovers but that one will need the complete truss rod adjustment and intonation. Its got a really cool ebony fretboard. Needs all new electronics. Ill let you know how I make out. Took about 1 hr but it was worth it. Thanks!

That is explained perfectly very clear thanks mate

Thank you soooo much after so many confusing and useless videos I'd lost hope but you illustrated and explained it perfectly.

Thank you so much. I almost bought a new bass neck until I found this video. Now it plays better than ever. Thank you

The neck on my Synyster Gates Standard got warped, so your video saved me from a panick attack

Thanks Man Bun! This really helped me get rid of the back bow!

This is from past experience, some 25 years ago. I would either loosen all the strings (if I had time). If I was in a hurry I would physically pull the neck backwards using the 5th fret as the fulcrum (think of a child's tedar toder). I would set the guitar facing up with fifth fret directly over my left leg. The guitar body to the right of my left leg with head stock to the left of my left leg. I would suspend the body of the guitar without support across my leg, keeping the guitar level with the ground by pushing down on the head stock with my left hand. This will bow the neck such that the strings (in some cases) will come in contact with the frets. This will remove string tension from the truss rod, reducing the force applied to the truss rod. You try to adjust a truss rod with heavy strings without helping the neck in the above way you WILL snap the truss rod. So much Chinese metals in all guitars today, you've really got to be cautious when doing these setups.

Thanks man!! This video was a great help :D

Excellent video. Thanks

Thank you! really helped me 👍🏻

This was a very good video on explaining the process. The icing on the cake was the camera work on checking the action. One thing I was told is that because of gravity on the strings you should check it with the guitar vertical, not horizontal. I'm sure the difference in results isn't much. Any yes, that truss rod cover is very cool.

My jazz bass has the first four frets or so tighter in string space than the rest of the frets. At one point I had the action super low and it was those first few frets that played the same while the rest of the neck made a huge gap between the string and fretboard. After I detuned the strings until they were flabby things looked a lot more flat, but with a slight tightness near the headstock.

Real good advice man thanx

I just built this guitar and the intonation was WAY out of whack. I kept adjusting the truss rod (to frightening amounts) I tried EVERYTHING but THEN I took off the neck and installed it a second time FIXED EVERYTHING!! I guess the neck wasn't fitting correctly the first time. Now I will watch your video for the correct set up! I have a 12 string I just built as well. It's even more messed up. Wish me luck! Thanks for the video.

Useful stuff dude.

Homie single handedly saved my guitar. Thanks man

Great video, thanks!

I love my guitars and this is a big problem for me thanks for showing me so I don't have to go to guitar store everytime lol

Great Video. I just adjusted the truss rod on my strat and I had to tighten it quite a bit. However, it seems to have gone well and the neck is now almost straight. I was a bit afraid to go more than i did .. I think i did probably 4 quarter turns or 4 just under a quarter turns to get it to where it was.

thanks I have my guitars hanging on the wall in a basement, took it down and noticed the neck was bowed pretty good. Will try this and thanks

Great information, thank you for the video, I bought some feeler thingies a while ago but I never used them, I will perhaps use them now that I know what it's about a little :) Tho I have a little bit of a lump in an older guitar of mine. I don't know how to get rid of that, since it's like not a bow or something. 11:20 : Highest guitar tuning I've ever heard haha.

If you don’t have a capo, I learned today here on KZfaq, you can use a pen or pencil and a hair elastic! I’m sure a regular elastic and crayon, would work fine as well..

Now here's the question. My Guitar lies on the table, the pickguard faces the ceiling. The neck closer to the headstock is bent upwards, in the middle it's bent downwards, from frets 12-14 is goes perfectly straight till the most upper frets. The neck has a portion where it's kin of an S-bent. Any suggestions?

Banana neck turned straight, Thanks.

thanks that help a lot i have a telecaster kit the neck seems to be nut heavy without any strings on i did not adjust anything yet except preparing the body and neck for a stain job and the electronics r done that was easy did the fret work as well even frets and shiny frets make the neck happy too but how do i get the neck to fit better ? thanks john

Thank you, very very useful! My guitar sounds good now lol

@Man Bun Metal Head. Good day. May I ask if we adjust truss rod on acoustic guitat do we need to tune first the guitar or loose the string? What is about the bounce you are saying? Thank you for sharing this video.

that was very helpful😍💪

Thanks man !

Dude! You're youtube videos awesome! Who was your teacher?

I don’t know why people are so scared of doing truss rod adjustments, it’s really easy. You’ve just got to be slow with it

Help. My guitar had a bow in the neck and was left unplayed for a few years, the truss rod was tight. I have loosened the truss road now, if I leave it long enough with the neck eventually straighten itself? Its a bolt on and maple by the way.

Picked up my mates old PRS Special 22, the neck is bowed but the strings still sit on the frets at 19-21, even at highest bridge height. The bow is basically like whilst the strings are on the frets at the neck end, about halfway along the neck there is about a 1.5cm gap between strings and fretboard, then the strings are really close to the fretboard at the head end. Not sure how I fix this :(

I agree with everything in all your vids but those who’s just trying it for the first time don’t make as big of an adjustment as manbun did im surprised it didn’t crack with so much backbow

Hi there! I’m a beginner, started playing guitar 8 months ago and its going well. But I started to learn everything about guitar adjustments/repairs etc. This might be a stupid question. But here’s the thing: I have a friend of mine setting up my truss rod. I told him I like my action pretty low and my neck pretty straight. I have a Squier telecaster bullet and it’s an awesome piece of guitar. But currently I’m setting up with 9-42 strings gauge that came along with the guitar. Now I want to switch to Ernie ball regular slinky 10-46. But I’m afraid that because I’m changing string gauge, the neck will move forward because of the tension. But here’s the thing: I’ve checked how my neck is set up and it’s pretty straight to the point I can no longer turn the truss rod clockwise, only counter clockwise. It seemed to have a back bow (but not a crazy back bow, maybe slight) but I have no string buzz whatsoever (thank god!). My question is: if I’m changing string gauge, should I FIRST give my neck a little relief, than changing strings, and readjust the truss rod by tighten it up? I’m afraid that if I don’t do that, the neck will bow forward because of the tension of the new strings. Hope you can answer my question. Peace✌🏼

How to repair s shape double bow? Got this in New guitar😭

Are you supposed to make the neck completely flat (straight) or should it slightly bowed downward so that there is a .006" gap between string and fret?

is it effective when tuning the elec.guitar,just put the tuner without plugging the guitar to guitar amp

Than u so much

To relieve tension have a nice snug nut.

Thank you for a simple and well-explained way to do this. I have an expensive PRS that has been a pig from the beginning. I was finally told that it has a slight warp in the neck so I have to keep setting it up. I would never buy another PRS. I have a very cheap Ibanez and it has never had any problems...luck of the draw, I guess.

I got a guitar that was put up for years and years with no strings on it. I started putting strings on it but the low string is touching the fretboard on the highest fret while around the 5th and 6th fret there's 2 to 3mm of gap. I need help ples

Dudee so I went on holiday and left my guitar in the tuning for black hole sun I come back and now the frets closer to the bridge r so high from the neck

Will it work if I change the guitars neck?

HELP! my Bass neck ( $200 Ibanez GIO soundgear) that fell and got knocked out of wack... I am trying to adjust the rod but it comes out or stops turning. help?

Those are 3 of my favorite bands in the background. Don't when you take relief out it makes the action on the higher frets higher?

Make about PRS SE custom 24 Truss rod.

I love you bro

I hate that I found my truss rod cuz I'm always wanting to make my guitar perfect I don't think there's anything wrong with it now but now that I found it I kind of want to mess with it 🤦🏻‍♂️ I didn't think my guitar had one. But I can't figure out if I have a bow because normally if my strings are too far from the frets I just cut little lines in the nut and the bridge to lower the strings down but at the top my strings are 1/16 from the fretboard they don't buzz but at the bottom towards the 16th fret it's about 3/16 I think it's like that because I cut bigger notches in the nut and I should have done it at the bridge so it would have lowered the strings from the back and cut smaller naches in the nut but the reason I'm saying this all is because since I have that 3/16 of an inch at the bottom I was kind of curious if I mess with my truss rod if I can get those a little bit closer I would like my strings to be 1/16 at the top and 1/8 at the bottom so I can get more of a electric guitar feel out of a acoustic .. I would be more than happy for you to tell me how stupid I am and give me some advice 😂

Thank you. The way you showed the "click" was very intuitive. After changing from 9 to 10s my string go really up, so I adjusted, then change again to 9.5 (my gauge). I supposed after adjusting the rod with the new string it will need some time to "settle", but this is becoming a nightmare (almost floyd rose alike). How much time do you think is nice to let settle and determine if more adjust is needed? (12, 24..72). This shit is a Schecter (yep I like the look and feel, horrible setup, thin neck that I suspect bents) thanks a lot bro!

Great video!! Is it the same turn direction if the truss rod hole is inside the sound hole?

i have a question for you i got an 1989 Greco i’ve had it for some time now i’m guessing since 2005 and i love this guitar it’s probably one of my favorite guitar to play the 14th fret on the D string kinda buzzes like a sitar almost the G string does that a little too and it’s the only place it does it at i thought it was maybe the frets but i was playing the guitar the other night and it stopped doing the sitar noise does it need a neck adjustment or the frets to be worked on or what that’s the only thing wrong with it at this moment thank you for your channel it’s my first time watching it

Great stuff. My Ibanez has a good amount of buzz in the first 3 frets. Any advice what I should do. As there is no guitar tech around where I live. Thank you so much

my acoustic guitar neck is bowed and the truss rod is loose - is it possibly broke?

I am hopefully getting a new squier bullet mustang huh by fender and I need to make sure the neck isn't warped could you maybe please make a video about how to tell if a guitar neck is warped and how to fix it please. Hope you see this

Mine sticks out a lil bit... how do i get it back in?

My peavey fury bass used to chronically have fret buzz the neck had a bad bow to it I was constantly messing with the truss

My acoustic guiter strings has a big gap from the fret bord so when i paly it buzzs so what should i do for that one

👍 thanks sir

I'm trying to fix a backbow neck of my Ibanez Prestige. Exept of the very first turn, the truss rod nut turns very very softly, is that normal? It turns easily with no strenght.

Dude. What is that guitar? I LOVE the scalloped neck!!!! Does anyone know what model this is?

i need help how and the hell do i get a straight neck with mid to low action

Good shit bro I learned a lot👍

Hi, my first 4 frets and after 13 frets not buzzing but 5-12 frets little bit buzzing is it my guitar little bit concave or convex and which way should turn my truss road?

I bought a very old guitar a while ago, the nut on the truss rod would not move for a while but it loosened up and started turning but after loosening it completely off, there was no difference to the neck. Recently I took off the fretboard to find the truss rod and neck completely full of some kind of glue...so thats not very helpful

very nice video brother....anyway, may I know what string gauge did you used on that guitar? I got a problem with my Ibanez S420, the truss rod is fully tightened but still upbow occurs. I'm using a gauge 9 strings....please help....

Around from the middle of the fretboard to the end of it, the strings get farther away from the board itself. The first couple of frets are good, it just gradually inclines from there. How would I fix this?? I ask just to be sure though I’ve never done this before and I definitely do not want to damage my guitar.

One thing you omitted was to loosen the strings a bit so as not to over tension and break any strings (especially they higher strings) which can happen when adjusting the truss rod. BOING!! (I hate breaking strings.)

before i mess with the truss rod i always kind of oil the area of where the wood is before i go cranking it... i wish people would do this i feel like it is necessary

I have an 80s guitar probably cheap a marlin superstrat, I'm trying to straighten the neck and the truss rod is becoming extremely hard to turn.. Any tips/suggestions?

Sir but im not able to move the rod more and still the tension is too much . My guitar is buzzing . Any suggestions sir what can i do?

I tooknit to a pro and he said it was messed up and I turned the trust rod clockwise cause it was bowed and it's fine and its straight. If it was broken it would turn if trust rod wouldn't turn? Tell me what u think ty.

Shouldn't you tune it in playing position?

After you loosen the rod retune before checking the gap. If you need to tighten the rod, define before tightening or you can strip or break the rod. He should have mentioned these things but other then that good deal. Nice guitar. Edit. I guess he kinda mentions tuning but not really. A noob is gonna watch this and break stuff. Be careful. If the rod stops turning, STOP. Genral rule of thumb is don't tighten rod under pressure. You can feel the difference when using the wrench.

I'm having an issue with my multiscale orsmby. I've had it for a few years, and i'm getting absolutely horrid string buzz ONLY on the D string. It is the middle string, and only when I play it open. Every single fret on every string is fine. Just this one when played open. No idea the issue. Should i maybe alter my trust rod? I'm a bit nervous to do so. Edit: I'm looking and it might be buzzing against the 1st fret marker. Since it's only close there, it seems everywhere else is fine and makes sense why it's only when I play open. Should I mess with my truss rod, or maybe try to raise the saddle? Or could it be an issue with the nut worn? I'm not sure

Thank you mr metal bun man, every one is very confusing and not understanding what a beginner is concerned about. I will go back to playing smoke on the water and every breath you take... jk. But thank you.

thank u

Before setting up a new guitar how long should you let it sit and acclimate prior to setting up

i have seen another videos where they say you need to adjust a little bit and wait even 24 hrs to check again the neck and make another adjustment if needed, is this true ??? the adjustment works so fast like showed on this video ????

Sir which tool you used for rotating it

Thanks bro saved me 50 bucks

I put on the Spa music channel, light some scented candles and oil massage my guitar to get it relaxed before I suddenly twist its neck into submission. Never sees it coming.

Off topic. We're you ever an extra on the show Frasier? Haha

i have a straight bow but still buzzing

hey,i have a problem with my guitar because the fret buzz are only on the G and B strings.Do you recommend anything for me to do about it? thank you!

It's like your hands have a mind of their own

Man i just bought a gretsch 6228 and we had great cold in canada last week... and what a bad surprise when i went to play it 😱😱😱😱 damn that suck, i know its gonna be okay. But still its the best guitar i ever had and the money it cost me ...

For a nice soft surface, I use my lap.. comfortably!

I have a huge gap between string and fret and buzzing too 😂wtf am I supposed to do

dude my truss rod nut is max tight to the right and there's still up bow. its all turning to the left only and the nut can be removed easily. When the nut is tightened all the way it recesses into the hole a fair way. Is this a case of when you might need washers or spacers that I hear folks talk about on forums? Also saw a vid where a dude loosened it off, put the neck into a slight back bow with clamps then tightened the truss rod to "hold" it in that position, string tension then gives the relief needed. Anyone tried that with success?

My issue is that my guitar is too old and his truss rod is over wrapped, literally I can't turn it back straight anymore because is at the top of his limits

Sorry if my question sounds a bit stupid but is it the same for an acoustic 12 string?

Why check neck relief and adjust the truss rod if the bridge height might be off? I mean which adjustment should go first, neck straightness or bridge height?

Do u have to de tune it first or leave it tuned in

Do you loosen the guitar string to do this ??