bowed neck

  1. S

    ''S'' Shaped Neck Bow

    Hey everyone, I bought a second hand Ashton bass guitar, for about 90$. But when I brought it home It turned out to have a neck bow, which you will see in the picture. I contacted a lot of luthiers and they all offered very high prices. I don't have the necessary tools or any kind of experience...
  2. J

    Washer trick not working on my ‘78 P-Bass...

    So, I bought 1978 Yamaha Lawsuit P-Bass (Pulser Bass 400) a few months back. It has a bowed neck, but I wasn’t too worried as it wasn’t that bad. The seller was cool (it was shipped from Japan) and gave me a partial refund for the inconvenience since he advertised the neck as straight in the...
  3. Gigglingbuns

    A guy is trying to sell me a SR375 with a bowed neck, but

    I was looking for a 5er, he had a SR375 and claimed it was 6 months old, only after asking deeper did he reveal it was a display model at MusicGoRound, assuming he's telling the truth, I can imagine they must've neglected to set it up. The guy was ready to take my 4 string Squier VM Jazz for the...
  4. Saxophone Phil

    Double Bass Advice on experimental (and crude) repair

    OK, here's the situation. I'm a sax player who's just fallen in love with double bass. The only problem is I can't afford to buy a decent one. What I do have is a 1950s German student-level bass that has serious problems. Despite these problems, I find I'm picking the instrument up quite quickly...