Le manche est censé être fait pour ne pas avoir besoin de truss rod justement, la manière dont le bois est choisi et le manche est construit etc.
Je laisse la place au site MusicZoo, qui a commandé des stratocaster avec ce système au CS Fender, et dont voici l'explication:
(j'ai mis en gras les parties les plus importantes, ça évite de tout lire pour les flemmards)
Citation:
When we started building the NoNeck Stratocaster® - The Music Zoo's exclusive Custom Shop Strats with the meaty neck profile from the '51 Nocaster® - we were just plain impressed that Leo Fender had created such a great design for the original Fender solidbody electric guitar way back in 1951, especially the feel of that neck. That original Nocaster® neck was fat, substantial, and strong.
So strong, that Leo Fender insisted that the neck would not need even need a truss rod as long as it was "built right". He knew that the installation of the truss rod, the adjustable metal rod that is embedded inside the neck in order to compensate for the tension created by the strings, would adversely affect the resonance and vibration of the whole instrument. A handful of Nocasters® and double pickup Esquires® were in fact made and sold with out truss rods in the early '50s, and these instruments are hugely sought after today. However, the reality of mass production meant that the assembly line could never spend enough time with each neck to make it perfect, so nearly every single production Fender guitar built since 1951 has been given the rod. Until now.
Why not have a truss rod? Simple: tone. Installing a truss rod in a neck means channeling out a significant amount of wood inside the neck for the rod to lay inside, reducing the amount of vibrational mass the guitar has. The neck plays a vital role in the sensitivity and resonance of the guitar. Plus, a solid, truss rod-free neck is how the very first Fender solidbodies were made, and that's just cool. What allows us to build a high-end Fender® guitar today without a truss rod is the level of craftsmanship that the modern Fender® Custom Shop can provide, a level of craftsmanship and quality that Leo Fender could never have hoped to offer 60 years ago.
To ensure that the Not Rod's neck will not bow, break, or twist over time, we needed to rely on Masterbuilder Mark Kendrick's deep experience with guitar building to perfect the process. Instead of carving each neck down to its final shape from a blank all at once, each neck is carefully carved down in over time by Mark to give the wood time to acclimate to its new shape at every stage. The result: a completely stable carved neck that is quite happy with the shape it is in.
Et voici la strat en question, qui est pas trop dégueulasse
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http://www.themusiczoo.com/pro(...)rick/
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