I just got an unidentified Japanese 60's era guitar, and after a few minutes of playing revealed a knock in the neck. I said to myself, "oh fuck". Broken truss - knocking in the neck cavity.

So I take the truss cover off half expecting the nut of the truss to be loose. It wasn't. Tight as fuck. I give it about an 1/16 turn tight, and the knock is gone. That was last night. No knock after a few hours of hacking (playing) on it.

This morning the knock is back. The 1/16 turn made no change in the neck.

The neck is true, believe it or not, and I only want it to have a very slight curve faceward. I can live with the neck being perfectly flat as it is. So, I guess my question is:

What would you do in this situation (assuming you want to keep the guitar)? I love love love the blues tone to this thing. Hound Dog sound. I assumed it was a Teisco, but still can't identify it, even after taking the entire thing apart. No pot id. No tail ID. No S#. And the fucker who sold me the guitar thought it would be good to take the logo plate off the head. So I have almost no way to find an identical neck as a replacement.

How to deal with this knocking truss....

Well, a truss rod's only $10 or so. How well is the fretboard glued on? If you can get the fretboard off, the truss rod would be a fairly straightforward replacement.

Maurice wrote:Well, a truss rod's only $10 or so. How well is the fretboard glued on? If you can get the fretboard off, the truss rod would be a fairly straightforward replacement.

Yuck. Yer prolly right.

I wish I could just identify this thing - and buy a replacement neck.

I just ran across this page shopping for a new neck. It has the exact measurements for stock fender-style replacement necks. Might help.

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/nec ... ction=faq2

Unfortunately this guitar won't take a standard fender neck. :(.

Thanks for the idea. :)

Guitar - Body - Back Plate + Neck - Head

ok, your cat is hilarious.
"ooh wait! I wanna be in this pic too!"

You have a Teisco, whatever it was branded as. I'd still encourage you to remove the fretboard with either this or this (you might need to get some moist heat going to make the work easier), and then drop in this before you reglue.

eliya wrote:ok, your cat is hilarious.
"ooh wait! I wanna be in this pic too!"

Thanks. :) That's my ubercat.

Maurice wrote:You have a Teisco, whatever it was branded as. I'd still encourage you to remove the fretboard with either this or this (you might need to get some moist heat going to make the work easier), and then drop in this before you reglue.

I figured it was prolly a Teisco. Thanks for the advice Maurice. I'm prolly going to take it.