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Bionic-Joe

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Re: Big news: Fender offering separate bodies and necks again
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2013, 02:46:05 AM »
Those new trussrods are Very weak and once they break the enck is finished...no rescue....only if you remove the entire fingerboard....the nut is only an 1/8th thick....No thanks....Vintage style please...
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Re: Big news: Fender offering separate bodies and necks again
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2013, 07:44:04 AM »
No blocks. Feh. :P
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Re: Big news: Fender offering separate bodies and necks again
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2013, 08:36:43 AM »
Quote from: Basil T. "Baz" Cooper on July 06, 2013, 02:46:05 AM
Those new trussrods are Very weak and once they break the enck is finished...no rescue....only if you remove the entire fingerboard....the nut is only an 1/8th thick....No thanks....Vintage style please...

The USA Series necks have the same truss rods as Fender has been using for years in the American Standard series, standard 3/16" rod with hex socket at the end meant to be used with the Bondhus balldriver-type allen wrench Fender provides. I haven't heard of any particular issues with the nut sockets breaking off. With hundreds of thousands of American Standard guitars and basses sold in the past 20 years, I'll bet only a tiny fraction have broken, and even then probably from using a straight allen wrench.
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