Thursday, March 19, 2026

47 thoughts on “HOW TO Adjust Your Guitar’s Truss Rod – in 30 Seconds

  • just spent 30min adjusting mine, then I came back to youtube and got this recommended. If I have saw this earlier my life would had been so much easier! I tried to rotate the rod more than he can, if my guitar did not have a protection against dumb people (tod10n) I think I would have broken it. Thank you by the way! Just aved this short on my bookmark!

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  • Mine don't have those ????. The action of my guitar is too high for me and i already looked inside, and i saw nothing, that will adjust it like that.

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  • Guys I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong can someone help? D A and E stings keep buzzing when I try to play a chord on the second “box” closest to the nut. I tried to do what this video said but I think I’ve done a full rotation at this point and there’s still buzzing (but it did improve compared to before). I lifter up the bridge on the bottom to the point where I can’t lift it up any higher or it will just fall out. I don’t know what else to do and I’m scared to keep doing the rotation thing from this video because I heard that doing too much can break the neck or something. Can someone please help?

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  • Something even easier and equally as important as knowing how to adjust your truss rod is learning that it’s called a truss rod and not a trust rod

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  • OMG! What's the rush ? Slow down and talk slower so the rest of us dummies can actually decipher what you're saying!!!

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  • You need a notched ruler & automotive feeler gauges to determine relief. This is a work around for worn frets, nut slot depth issues, neck pocket/join reset issues, bridge/saddle/top issues. This video is a overly simplistic solution. Fixing the true issues > trying to compensate for one issue with an adjustment to something else.That might work, but it may also affect tuning stability & intonation. One can only compensate so much before the work around fails.

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  • For those that might be going "EERRHHMMM, relief does not equal action, you adjust the saddles for that" You are correct… However, for some guitarists, like myself, who own an electric with a bridge that isn't the common Strat/Hipshot fixed bridge, like a Tune-O-Matic which can only adjust the action of all the strings and not individually, it's a completely different case. I had high string action on my main guitar, which is a BC Rich Warlock that has, you guessed it, a TUNE-O-MATIC bridge. When I did lower the action, I would then get major string buzz. But now, after adjusting the relief along with the action, my strings are where I want them to be and there is no string buzz. Conclusion? Relief helps with String Action. Stop being an ignorant nerd who thinks they know it all, we don't want you mixing up with us cool and chill nerds.

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  • Thank you, this helped me relieve the tension in my neck. Strings were catching on the fret and going silent. Something that was driving me insane for weeks was fixed in 10 seconds.

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  • For me, its alright if my guitar is high action, actually I'm slowy loving the fact my guitar is a high action.

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  • I tried adjusting it myself but the wrench could not move at all and I did not see any difference ,is there a problem with my guitar's truss rod ?

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  • It helped me thanks xD I didn't fret but I had a slight buzzing in the 6th and when I pressed individual notes

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  • Yes finnaly i was scared to fix it without knowing how to fix the neck well now i know

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