How to Adjust a Truss Rod with Paul Riario

Guitar World's Paul Riario shows you how to make a basic adjustment to your truss rod. Fear no more! You can do this!

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[mandarin]

3:33 "Then you take the truss rod, insert it into the truss rod…" ok

[benwright]

O, your Straightening the neck; but are you straightening it from a Back Bow, or from too much Releif? Is it Left, ? or Right? for back bow. Can you be more clear on that? WTF dude?

[Alex-jqft]

the "background" music.. why

[MrIbanezguitarist]

"First you take the truss rod, insert it into the truss rod "

[simonho]

the background music is very annoying !

[ddss]

I tried this. next day I'm driving down the road and the wheel came off my car. Be careful.

[karlsnyper]

"Next: how to adjust your white balance", just kidding, nice tips!

[imannonymous]

Learning this technique will save you hundreds of dollars throughout our musical paul...great lesson

[judeboys]

thanx for this video, , , , iv always had low confidence with this stuff

[nicksalomone]

Why does everyone automatically think the truss rod is the culprit? It could be the bridge saddle height or the nut, not always the truss rod.

[andreineagu.online]

This is the ES-339 from Epiphone. Great guitar!

[juana]

You were not clear enough about defining a neck with a bow, and the opposite of that. Persons who are relatively new to guitar adjustments would most likely not understand.

[armonsari]

For a locking term guitar with high action is it better to adjust the trust rod or lower the trem itself ?

[KeganVanSickle]

It doesn't always mean your neck is twisted if your E strings have different action, it could just mean that your bridge or saddles need adjustment. I like to hold the headstock at my dominant eye and peer down the fret board, you can usually see if there is a slight variation.

[ctgblue]

Perfect timing with this video. I already knew how to do it, but I bought a little Hofner Shorty and needed to set it up, requiring a rod adjust. This was just the kick in the pants I needed to get it done.

[TheA-TeamMusic]

What the hell is with the background music? Completely unnecessary.

[deafforever]

I don't need this hypochondriac bullshit. Every single guitar from Guitar Center is backbowed or twisted. Yes your neck is fucked up. Someway, somehow it is fucked. No. You will not get a good one. I've tried. You can only return so many.

[lanceraustin]

You failed to connect bow and back bow to the concept of tightening/loosening the rod. Rightie-tightie, sure, but which malady is addressed with this direction? And you keep making a distinction of "we're straightening this neck, " as if that's everything the novice needs to know. Again, aren't both bowed and back-bowed necks in need of straightening?

[davidmacleod]

Listen, I really would like to hear this but, yet, you have all this unnecessary music playing in the background and it is distracting. 😊

[davidmacleod]

Okay, I see this a lot! They say “quarter turn” and clearly it’s NOT a quarter…it’s an eighth turn.