Warped Neck

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Greetings Low End Lovers,

New to the forums and beginner bass player. Still learning.

I have a Corvette Standard 4 string that I picked up used at a Guitar center in January in South Carolina. Had it set up by a luthier at my local guitar center.

Not satisfied with the quality of the luthier's work after not being able to resolve fret buzzing problem that seemed to move around the neck. No matter how it was adjusted. I ended up taking it to a co-worker who actually builds bass guitars and he found the issue straight on. The neck is twisted at the bass of the head just below the nut. The slight twist extends to about half way between the 2nd and third fret.

What should I do? I do not have the capitol to fork out for a decent bass at the moment. Do I have any options at this point?:?:
 
more relief + slight increase of nut hight might solve it.

If the twist is not too big a fret job might fix it as well.
 
Oof, this is a rough one. I spent more than a decade fighting a twist in a STII 5 string, which eventually suffered a broken truss rod, possibly overtaxed by needing to be continually tightened to try to get the neck into playable shape. It was also sent back to Rob Busch, then the repair guy at Dana B Goods/Warwick at the time, who steam treated it twice and tried to true it. But it's difficult to convince the wood to not do something it wants to do, and might tend to do more over time.

My honest advice is this: before you spend too much, get too deep in, and get too emotionally attached, sell that bass and buy another just like it if you like. Disclose the issue, suggest that it may be able to be fixed by a good fret job or Pleking - which it might - but just save yourself the headache and heartache that I went through. You likely won't need to spend much more than you already have at this point after that one is sold, and I imagine it would be less than or equal to the amount you'd spend in the immediate future trying to fix that one. Over time, you'd likely spend a LOT less going this route :)

Good luck!
 
Id even consider taking it back to the music store and expalining that the bass was damaged and was not disclosed by the saleman/Rep at the point of sale etc and if you knew, you would not have brought it. Here in Australia we have consumer laws that cover us in situations like this with a warranty esp when a business sells you a faulty product. Not sure about the US but if there is no warranty, if you kick up a stink you could get store credit or the store to pay for repairs. You should not have to be out of pocket paying for repairs on a damaged bass sold at a music store and esp if it was not disclosed.
 
Thanks for all the input gentlemen. He has already reassembled the bass but Ill try to get a pic of it to show the degree of the warping.
 
Unfortunately, just no fixing this. Trade it back to GC for different bass. I wouldn't tell them it's warped.
 
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