nickc35

ihocky2 - Thanks a million man!!! My truss-rod wrenches from Stew-Mac showed up today and I found one that worked. I got that sucker out of there without having to use a grinder or remove the fretboard. I really really appreciate your suggestion. I hope there is something I can do for you in the furture to pay you back (just no cash, sorry I don't have the cash. LOL) Thanks again!! Success is wonderful feeling!

Thanks ihocky2 I frequent the stewmac site all the time but never noticed those particular truss-rod wrenches. Since I have been buying tools from them for a while now, I might as well add them to the tool collection and give them a shot. Thank you too Wez for the tips as well. If the stewmac wrenches don't work then I'll look into used a small grinder attachment on the dremel tool to make some slots. Then there's the epoxy tip too. Thanks, I'll post my progress.

Yeah orgmorg is correct, the truss-rod nut is not brass. I shouldn't even have mentioned the word brass in my orginal posting. but you have given me an idea southpa. Maybe I can use a dremel to cut a couple of slots in the nut and use a screwdriver to remove it. That will still be tough because one slip of the dremel and I have a ruined fretboard.

That's not what I was hoping to hear. There's got to be an easier way.

Hi guys. New to the forum. I'm looking for some help on a guitar I just bought on evilBay. I bought a double-cut O'Hagan Nightwatch...most likely a late model from 1981 or '82. For those of you who don't know about O'Hagan they were made in the U.S.A. from 1977 to 1982. I think the factory was in Minnesota. I own a few of them and they're really well made guitars. All have neck-thru construction. Anyway, it was probably the grimiest guitar I ever bought on eBay. It was extremely dirty and smelled pretty badly too. I instantly put it on the work bench and started taking it apart to clean it up. I noticed that a previous owner used some sort of expanding glue like Gorilla Glue to glue on the brass nut. It wasn't a clean job at all. The glue seeped on to the fretboard at the first fret and the glue got into and around the truss-rod nut. I used a hobby knife to clean up as much of the glue as I could. The truss-rod nut has an internal hex drive and after I cleaned the glue out of the internal drive on the head, I realized it was already stripped. I tried a couple of allen wrenchs and couldn't get the nut to budge. The allen wrench has nothing to grab onto because the nut is stripped so bad. This leads me to my reason for posting. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the truss-rod nut off of this guitar? I intitially thought of some sort of a screw extractor type thing. But those are too long. There is not much space to work with here. Just the short end of an "L" allen key/wrench is all that will fit in there. I really don't want to have to remove the rosewood fretboard to get at it because that is such a big job and probably just a little bit beyond my capabilities. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!!