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Which Martin rod do you mean, they use several styles. I use the steel U channel rod that LMI calls "Martin Style" and its simple and reliable. I doubt you will ever break it during the course of its normal operation. It's a one way rod, but I seem to have managed to adjust it to put an underbow into the neck without any string tension on the guitar, so I guess it works 2 way as well...

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that isn't even close to the martin rod. This is similar to the old 1 way rod. They took some liberty on that add. I am sure Martin will be speaking to them about it once they see it.

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Martin's one way rod was always the aluminum U channel rod.

Yes but the 2 way is not .

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