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A friend of mine has a Gibson ES135 (modern) brought in for the truss rod repair. The threaded end snapped off, you see it quite often on Gibsons.

The SM rescue kit was used to cut deeper into the neck and cut some treads on the rod. Still, no success, tightening the nut does little and the neck relief is way bigger than acceptable, even jigged to help the rod.

Normally, the next step would be removing the fretboard and replacing the truss rod, but there's another way I read reports of, seems to work in some cases.

Has anyone tryed this: locating the truss rod ancor, removing only a part of the fretboard, milling (?) the ancor and removing the rod through the headstock hole, then replacing it the same manner?

Haven't heard of that method. Doesn't sound like much less work for something that

Steve

Take a look at this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=579yVhMua5Y
Keith removes the fret, saws down to the neck in the slot, then just removes a small portion of the fret board. I have a Gibby SB-450 that I plan to try this on.

The advantage is that you don't risk the neck deciding to move while the fret board is off. Dis-advantage would be the fun of covering the slot, but two fillers for each side shouldn't be too bad.

If the neck relief is too great, remove the fingerboard and re-glue with the excessive relief corrected. That together with the truss rod repair, with access gained while the fingerboard is removed.


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