Tricky truss rod repair on Gibson ES135

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bunny
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Tricky truss rod repair on Gibson ES135

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A friend of mine has a Gibson ES135 (modern) brought in for the truss rod repair. The threaded end snapped off, you see it quite often on Gibsons.

The SM rescue kit was used to cut deeper into the neck and cut some treads on the rod. Still, no success, tightening the nut does little and the neck relief is way bigger than acceptable, even jigged to help the rod.

Normally, the next step would be removing the fretboard and replacing the truss rod, but there's another way I read reports of, seems to work in some cases.

Has anyone tryed this: locating the truss rod ancor, removing only a part of the fretboard, milling (?) the ancor and removing the rod through the headstock hole, then replacing it the same manner?

One of the reports included heat treating the warped neck before inserting the new truss rod, without refretting...
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