Did Gibson make Seeger open back long necks with single or always double co-ordinator rods. I have seen RB 250's from the dark days with one rod. It would seem that with the increased mechanical advantage of a longer neck they would have used 2.
IIRC they only used one rod in the RB175 and the RB180. However, it's been a long time since I saw one.
Yeah, that's right Mark. We've had 175s and 180s from the 60s with single coordinator rods come through the shop.
BTW Gibson used a single coord rod on many banjos since way back in the pre-war days. It's not an indicator of "dark days". It's just Gibson trying to save money.
Pretty much everything from post war days up until the late 1960s redesign usually used a single coord rod. I started on an early 60s RB 100, then traded up to an early 60s RB 250. Both had single coord rod (bottom) and the famous brass "pyramid nut" holding the top lag bolt tight.
My 1960s Epiphone Campus is single coordinator rod
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