Big news: Fender offering separate bodies and necks again

[Bionic-Joe]

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...

[lowend1]

No blocks. Feh.

[Dave W]

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.