How to Adjust Your Acoustic Guitar Truss Rod - Beginner's Guide 

I agree, but, a 60 degree turn is NOT a 1/4 of a turn, 90 degrees is a 1/4 turn, What the fellow was doing is more like an 1/8 of a turn, which is the max you should turn at a time. Still a Great video!

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Absolutely agree 😀🙏

Thanks chap great video

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Hi sir, I've only been playing for like 6 years and barre chords for me is still a headache, I almost couldn't do it, I'm still trying to have the guts to adjust my truss rod too, nice to hear that you got good results, hope it does the same with me since I have to do it myself

Mess around and find out! Make notes and even video it, in case you need to roll back the changes.

Nice

Should I take the risk to adjust it by myself

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Thank you Xander.

The good thing about adjusting the truss rod is you can undo anything you did. Just don’t strip the screw or force it and break it. It’s pretty hard to break it. If you have some experience as a mechanic, you’ll know when it’s too much force.

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I wonder if a Luther would know why that is. There might be a reason. Maybe because the bridge and sadle needs to be permanently attached or something for the best transfer of the string Vibrations to the body. I don't know though. That would be a nice improvement. So would be the ability to adjust the intonation like you can on an electric. I'm a lefty who has to restring a guitar upside down every once in a while and on an acoustic, that means the saddle is angled the wrong way now. Bummer. If it was adjustable I could just adjust it. But the fact it isn't means I would have to go through the trouble of actually replacing it, which is a ton of work and risky work at that. You have to take a hot blade and separate the glue and pry the bridge off or at the very least fill in the saddle relief and reroute another channel going the other way. I don't even think it's worth all that for my guitar I got now. I'll just have to suffer through the wonky intonation.

It's not for the string action, it's for neck position (bow, just a little bow or straight). String action have to do with the saddle and, less frequently, with the nut.

Especially when tightening!

That's correct.

No worries!

loosen

Thanks

Hey there. We showed tuning the guitar in the video as it's an important step before adjusting the truss rod, as without the right tension the adjustment could be wrong. You can see further information about how string tension affects the neck in our latest video, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5ijAyx8_nUw.html

Hey, thanks for the comment. The guitar in the video is strung with Phosphor Bronze strings. You are right, the phrase 'Steel String Guitar' is simply used to distinguish between classical guitars (which use nylon strings) and acoustic guitars (that use steel/bronze/phosphor bronze strings).

No worries!