Has anyone repaired a nick on the neck?

[Chrisk-K]

My tune bass has a small nick on the neck around the 8th fret. It's about 1/2" long and very shallow. But my thumb feels it.

I don't think "steaming" would work for this. I could try the superglue method, but I don't know how to level the glued area because of the curvature of the neck. Any suggestions?

[Jools4001]

Get a small square of thick polythene and some masking tape. Then drop fill the nick with CA so that there is just the merest hint of a whisper of a touch of overfill (you may want to practise this on some scrap wood). Then mould the polythene round the neck, over the fill, and bind it up with masking tape until the CA cures. The CA won't stick to the polythene so if you do it right you should have a perfectly moulded fill with maybe just the tiniest flashing where the CA might wick between the neck and the polythene patch. You should then be able to just scrape of any excess with a razor blade and a light sanding - there shouldn't be much if you mould it right.

[Chrisk-K]

What is CA? Exactly what do you mean by polythene? The logic of your instruction does make a lot of sense!

[darthplagis]

CA is ciano-acrylate........ or commonly known as superglue

polythene is cling film or any other thin platic wrapping material. im guessing jools was meaning get a thick as possible sheet not the cheap stuff that snaps in a breeze

[brendanbassist]

I used super glue on a fender stratocaster (eek! wrong forum! ) and used some steel wool to buff it smooth. It came out surprisingly well.

[Zooberwerx]

If the blem is super-shallow, you may be able to reduce it considerably with #0000 steel wool and compound of choice without CA. Just completed a touch-up where I had a series of ridge-like depressions at the neck / fingerboard joint....not deep enough to require super glue but certainly bothersome to an OCD-driven individual like myself.

Riis

[Jools4001]

Originally Posted by Chrisk-K

What is CA? Exactly what do you mean by polythene? The logic of your instruction does make a lot of sense!

Yeah, sorry CA is Cyanoacrylate otherwise known as superglue, but I'm baffled that you don't know what I mean by polythene (AKA polyethelene). It is the most commonly used plastic in the world with production of around 80 million tons a year (you might not need that much ). It's available in many gauges from very thin plastic bags to plastic bucket type material. The thickness you would need is something like the stuff that they use (here in the UK at least) as damp proof membrane under concrete floors, thick enough to keep the CA moulded nicely to the neck but thin enough to mould to the neck contours

[Chrisk-K]

I'm baffled that you don't know what I mean by polythene

English is not my mother tongue. But I do know "plastic bags"