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truss and rod
One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.
** The neck can be entirely of wood without a steel truss rod
This is why nylon string guitars often don't include a truss rod either.
The truss rod is a metal rod that runs along the inside of the neck.
Turning the truss rod clockwise tightens it, counteracting the tension of the strings and straightening the neck or creating a backward bow.
Turning the truss rod counter-clockwise loosens it, allowing string tension to act on the neck and creating a forward bow.
Adjusting the truss rod affects the intonation of a guitar as well as the height of the strings from the fingerboard, called the action.
Some truss rod systems, called " double action " truss systems, tighten both ways, allowing the neck to be pushed both forward and backward ( standard truss rods can only be released to a point beyond which the neck is no longer compressed and pulled backward ).
A guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod, all attached to a long wooden extension, collectively constitute its neck.
Double truss rod neck
These were followed by one-piece hardwood structures with an adjustable truss rod.
Les Paul's name was officially deleted in 1961, but the SG continued to feature Les Paul nameplates and truss rod covers until the end of 1963.
Until the invention of the truss rod in 1921, twelve-string guitars were nearly universally tuned lower than the traditional EADGBe, to reduce the stresses on the instrument.
* Classic single action truss rod on the American Special Stratocaster ( versus modern Bi-Flex truss rod on the American Standard ),
Reintroduced in 2009 with a 21-fret maple neck, graduated scalloped rosewood fingerboard, Bullet truss rod nut with 3-bolt neck plate and Micro-Tilt neck adjustment, flush-mounted Jim Dunlop locking strap buttons and two Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat single-coil pickups ( the middle pickup is omitted, but the pickup hole for the middle pickup is still present ).
These changes were said to have been made to save money: while it suited the new ' improved ' micro-tilt adjustment of the neck ( previously requiring neck removal and shimming ), the " Bullet " truss rod system, and a 5-way pickup selector on most models, it also resulted in a greater propensity toward mechanical failure of the guitars.
* The Bi-cut neck design involved cutting the neck lengthwise perpendicular to where the fretboard is later installed, routing a channel for the truss rod, then gluing the two neck pieces back together.
Features include an alder body, maple neck with steel 2-way truss rod, maple 16 " radius fingerboard, 24 jumbo thin frets with colored number fret marker inlays, black Floyd Rose Pro Style floating Tremolo with Floyd Rose Tremolo stop, Sperzel red satin tuners, 14 degree tilt-back headstock with black Paradise logo and matching tremolo and electronics plates.

truss and amount
The simplest form of a truss is an A frame ; however, the great amount of outward thrust generated here often causes the truss to fail.

truss and tension
Tensegrity domes, patented by Buckminster Fuller in 1962, are fabric-covered structures consisting of radial trusses made from steel cables under tension with vertical steel pipes spreading the cables into the truss form.
The continued popularity of the Pratt truss is probably due to the fact that the configuration of the members means that longer diagonal members are only in tension for gravity load effects.
* When open, the bridge will have to maintain its own weight as a balanced double cantilever, while when closed and in use for traffic the live loads will be distributed as in a pair of conventional truss bridges, which may require additional stiffness in some members whose loading will be alternately in compression or tension.
Like the truss, a space frame is strong because of the inherent rigidity of the triangle ; flexing loads ( bending moments ) are transmitted as tension and compression loads along the length of each strut.
Steel truss cantilevers support loads by tension of the upper members and compression of the lower ones.
This assumption means that members of the truss ( chords, verticals and diagonals ) will act only in tension or compression.
Because wood was so abundant, early truss bridges would typically use carefully fitted timbers for members taking compression and iron rods for tension members, usually constructed as a covered bridge to protect the structure.
This form first appeared as a “ combination truss ” built in wood and iron with wooden vertical members, chords, and endposts, and iron tension diagonals.

truss and strings
Classical guitars do not require truss rods as their nylon strings exert a lower tensile force with lesser potential to cause structural problems.
Instruments built with ten or more strings have two embedded, dual-action truss rods and dual 1 / 4 " outputs.
The Vertigo Tour used 189 strings of these " MiSphere " LED balls suspended from custom truss, which allows the LED curtains to be rolled up.

truss and place
Pine logs, cut and milled at Baraboo, were fitted and set in place in lattice truss construction with 3x10 inch planks secured by hardwood pins, eliminating the use of nails or bolts, and floored by plating.
This mega-crane with a 2600 ton capacity was delivered in over 200 tractor-trailer loads and put in place the preassembled steel truss center span.

truss and on
In the final design, the SWS and ATM were launched together, but for the single-launch concept to work, the ATM had to pivot 90 degrees on a truss structure from its launch position to its on-orbit orientation, clearing the way for the crew to dock its Apollo Command / Service Module at the axial docking port of the Multiple Docking Adapter.
Execution by hanging is described as follows: " In execution by hanging, the prisoner will be hung on a hanging truss which should look like a cross, while his ( her ) back is toward the cross, and ( s ) he faces the direction of Mecca Saudi Arabia, and his ( her ) legs are vertical and distant from the ground.
Image: Pool Forge Covered Bridge Inside View HDR 3264px. jpg | The Burr arch truss design on the inside of the bridge
The company built a 3-foot gauge rail line from Judd, on the Illinois Central Railroad 8. 5 miles south to the mines, including a 370 foot wooden truss bridge across the Des Moines River.
Fairhaven is also crossed by U. S. Route 6, which enters the town on a bridge between the mainland and Pope's Island, which is connected to the rest of New Bedford by the New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge, a swing-span truss bridge over one hundred years old.
The 90 foot ( 27 m ) long Burr arch truss bridge was built in 1877, rehabilitated in 1998, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
; Tomatoes and peppers: ' Blossom end rot ' – Symptoms start as sunken, dry decaying areas at the blossom end of the fruit, furthest away from the stem, not all fruit on a truss is necessarily affected.
A box truss fuselage structure can also be built out of wood — often covered with plywood — as can be seen on this Ibis canard fuselage.
Later on in the episode, a frustrated Archie yells at Edith " When I had the hernia I didn't make you wear the truss.
They are not gutted before cooking ; the head, skinned with eyes removed, is left on and the beak used to truss the bird.
See truss arch bridge for more on this type.
The most basic type of mobile crane consists of a truss or telescopic boom mounted on a mobile platform-be it on road, rail or water.
The Prince Edward Viaduct System, commonly referred to as the Bloor Viaduct or the viaduct, is the name of a truss arch bridge system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that connects Bloor Street East, on the west side of the system, with Danforth Avenue on the east.
Minor problems were found in the guidance subsystem and service structure operations, damaged strain gauges were found in a liquid oxygen stud and truss member, and a manhole cover on the dummy Centaur ( S-V-D ) third stage had to be replaced.
He based the design on the Pratt truss which was familiar to him from his bridge-building work.
Historically, the route passed over the water on the Cache River Bridge, but the 1934 Parker pony truss bridge was bypassed in 1995.
During the spacewalk, he completed the replacement of the Nitrogen Tank Assembly on the P1 truss of the International Space Station, and installed trunnion covers on the Columbus module.
MFD consists of three separate experiments located on a support truss in the payload bay.
Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19: 45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28, 000 pound Starboard 1 ( S1 ) truss segment to the Space Station.

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