My daughter has an acoustic guitar made by 'Vintage' ... (I hope this doesn't get me banned from the site)
It's been worked on by a proper expert, who added some braces, removed a couple, shave a couple more down and it's now sounding pretty decent, amazingly. But the action has crept up a little, so I thought I'd just tighten the neck down a bit.
But the truss rod seems a bit weird. It's definitely not hexagonal, and as hard as I look at it, it seems smooth and tubular. But it looks as though there may be a detail maybe 2 or 3 mm inside, where the tube is reduced to a half-tube, so that the properly shaped gizmo would key into it and enable me to turn it.
Does anyone have any idea about this?
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I keep a selection of old Allen keys with the ends filed down to a taper for problems like this - you use the next size up and file the end to the size below over about half an inch.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You need to get it out so you can replace the nut - it's not usable like that. Alvin's suggestion will probably work, but a quicker method is to hammer a tapered flat-blade screwdriver into it - if you get the right size it will bite into the largest dimension of the remaining recess, and you should be able to turn it and get the nut out. If that doesn't I epoxy a scrap Allen key into it - the long end, so you can turn the whole thing without it hitting the rest of the guitar - then once set, wind it out with a pair of heavy pliers if it won't turn by hand.
You can buy replacement nuts from Allparts (among others).
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein