Sorry, my last couple of posts yesterday haven’t appeared in this topic, I was having trouble logging in to my account and replied via the reply option in my email, guess that doesn’t work too well!!🤪 I see that Robin…   Read more»

@somethingnicer I think that’ll just be for the fatter end part, the main part of the rod will be a 1/4 inch. Personally I use a 1/4 inch for the full length including acces then I go over the thicker…   Read more»

@robin that’s what I was thinking. Maybe they just taped it on so it won’t get lost in transit. Thank you. This has been very helpful!

@somethingnicer 
I’m thinking that the wooden filler strip has been taped on to the trussrod to protect it during transport.

 This is what my trussrods look like. A round steel rod and a flat steel strip.

@robin Sure thing. This is the truss rod I have:

Thats a good comprehensive answer you’ve had from Brian. I’m a wee bit confused with your wooden truss rod, can you post a photo of that.

@brie that’s very helpful… so sounds like I need the 1/4” bit instead. No worries….. so the flat wooden part (on mine it’s wood) goes facing up. And then I still place a fillet on top of that that glues…   Read more»

Hi, there seems to be a wee bit of confusion here, so I’ll try to answer this question and your next one together 😃 The slot for the truss rod needs to be the same width as the truss rod,…   Read more»