| We're talking about a less than $300 bass here, so let's not freak out if the OP wants to do major surjury himself. I just measured the angle created by the fingerboard glue joint and the glue joint between the top and ribs on my bass and came up with 5 degrees. bats, I think you may have approached your issue in the most difficult way, if your neck joint was good to start with, you probably should have put on a shorter bridge and dressed your fingerboard to get the string height/action you want. to put your neck back on you are going to have to get every last bit of old glue out, and make sure that the joint is perfectly air tight. you also need to make sure that you don't put your neck back on crooked. you can make the neck stick out more from the body (overstand) to adress your original issue. i'm afraid that if you increase the angle you will create too sharp of an angle where your strings go over your bridge, which will make your bass tighter and your strings more likley to break, although it could also make your bass louder. i believe the string break angle is usualy in the neighborhood of 30 degrees.
unfortunately, i can't advise you as to the best way to physically do any of this. i'm not a luthier, just a luthier wannbe! hopefully one of the people on this forum who have actually built a bass will chime in, maybe you should send one of them a PM inviting them to comment. | 
