Do all truss rod nuts work on the musicmaster? Does it affect the fact that it is a shot scale bass or is there a standard that all fender instruments use the same one?

You're right rob, i'll take a picture so you guys can see exactly what happened. However, the picture that was posted by James is exactly the problem, one of the four metal corner pieces is broken. So paul, I don't have to buy a new neck and that's awesome. I understand after seeing the picture you ...

Tried with a flat one too and it was too hard. Any other suggestion?

Well ... this is going to be hard to explain in English but here it goes. It's supposed to have 4 pieces for the screwdriver to make it turn, and it has only 3. I guess this means that it's broken and not slack, right?

How much is a new neck going to cost? It sucks if I have to buy a new neck.

Phil, exactly about that I came to talk about. I took the neck off and took a look at it.. the truss rod is broken. That is really a problem. What are my options now?
Can a bass/guitar tech set the bass and stop the fretting even with the truss rod broken? I'm a little worried.

A normal screwdriver? Why didn't google tell me that!
Thanks a lot man. I'll try that and I'll report back.

Hello, not so long ago I bought a 1978 fender musicmaster bass. I love the bass and I put some jazz knobs in it, new strings & gave it some maintenance. I also bought him straploks and a nice strap. (Don't worry, I will post pictures in the future!) The problem I'm having is that it seems to fre...