I Need A Set Up Should I Do It Now Or Wait For Humidity And Temps To Rise?

I would say wait until the humidity rises. That usually corresponds to a rise in temperature, the more important part of that being that your furnace is not coming on. As your furnace heats the house, the relative humidity drops. So once the furnace is not active, the humidity will be increasing in your house. Give it a couple of weeks for the wood in your neck to adapt to the higher humidity and then get it set up. It should be good then until the furnace comes on again regularly in the autumn.

 

I say cash in your free one now, and in the interim afterwards, learn how to do it yourself.

You can thank me later.

 

Normally you just need to adjust your truss rod if you liked the setup before.

 

I think almost all of us have been 'that guy'.

Baby steps... watch the Carruther's videos, in order... more than once, if you have to. Note your questions, and bring them back here. They'll get answered, for sure. Once you're comfortable in what you're trying to accomplish, hit it.

Nothing like saving money doing something yourself, but the satisfaction in adjusting the instrument to your liking is priceless.

 

You should be good by mid to late May.

 

I live not to far from you.
Do you setup now. From there you should only be doing small micro adjustments to the truss rod.
I have the same problem as you with unfinished necks and alls it takes is a 1/8 of turn right or loose depending on the change.
Don't wait because those humidity changes are constant and year round and every 3 months i need to get the truss rod tool, small little micro turn.
Does it really matter if its may? Sept? Nov? The bass dont know but it needs to know the changes are real
Do a proper setup and learn to adjust your neck when needed, not too much else to it and don't over think it

 

I tend to agree with this if you are up to doing your own truss rod adjustments. I do mine whenever it needs it, sometimes that's weekly to keep them in the sweet spot I like. But if you are reticent to make truss rod adjustments, way till mid May so you don't have to pay a tech twice before next winter.

 

One compelling reason to get your setup while its still dry is if you have sharp fret ends/fret sprout. That's typically a sign of the fingerboard shrinking due to low humidity. The up side is that once you dress those fret ends with the fingerboard in its shrunken state, they should be fine year-round from then on.