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thanks, that's a good point. I will annotate the video to reflect the wisdom of clamping there. although, I have to wonder...Since you're bending the ends upward, you are actually flexing the rod downward and flattening it if anything, and therefore it doesn't seem too likely that you were going to ...

Great questions! Given the skinny neck, and the wings being 7/8'ths of the body width, You'd have to have some different clamping scheme than I utilized to clamp the neck portion as well. I suppose one could use a different desk/workbench and clamp back at the bridge. One could also use a helper to ...

Thanks JPS, I think it wouldn't let me embed, because I've always been a lurker rather than a poster

So, the time came for me to adjust the truss rod on my trusty '77 4001 and armed with Joey's web page (though sadly without the video anymore) I decided I could take this on myself. I setup all my other instruments, and I didn't see why I couldn't manage with the Ric as well. Then it occurred to me ...