Author Topic: Dual Truss Rods (Read 355 times)

precarius · « **on:** October 13, 2007, 01:52:11 PM »

This is an ignorant question, but in what year did Alembic start using the dual truss rods?
Mike

oggydoggy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2007, 10:00:56 AM »

Mike,
My '77 has the dual truss rod system. I owned a '75 that had a single, not sure about '76.
Best Wishes,
-Ed

willgunn · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2007, 11:09:26 AM »

My first Alembic, which I'd received in June 1976 directly from Alembic (#AC 76 405, a very customized short-scale w/Series II Electronics) had a single truss rod. I think it's safe to say that the change from single to double occurred sometime in the area between late '76 and early '77.
-Will Gunn

hieronymous · « **Reply #3 on:** October 14, 2007, 11:53:55 AM »

My '75 doubleneck has a single truss rod for the fretless and dual truss rods for the 30 scale baritone neck, so put that date back to at least '75.

lbpesq · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2007, 08:51:34 AM »

birthdate: 8/19/76

Bill, tgo

hieronymous · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2007, 09:40:54 AM »

There is a post partway down the page here by dela217 that states that dual trussrods didn't become standard until late 1977, although they showed up here and there before then.

82daion · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2007, 09:41:12 AM »

I think it's safe to say that they changed somewhere between '75 and '77.

My '75 SI has a single rod, and seems no less stable for it.

811952 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2007, 01:09:20 PM »

The necks seem to have also gotten appreciably bigger in cross-section when the dual trussrods came onto the scene. Some of the earlier single-truss basses I've had the pleasure of fondling sported very thin necks..

John