Morris Precision Bass

[Inosjh]

Hi, I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the holidays. I bought a Morris Precision Bass, and the neck has an issue—I can't properly set it up, and there's a bit of a bow. The curve was reduced a bit by applying heat. If anyone in the forum has a good neck for a Morris Pbass, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know. Thanks in advance!

 

[Prodigus Filius]

If the pocket is pretty much pbass size, than why not put any pbass neck on it. And I don't mean it has to be a Fender neck. Doubt you'll source a Morris neck just on it's own, although a TB member might come to the party. There are a couple of Morris Hurricanes for sale in my country (Australia) from a couple of outlets and I notice one on U.S Ebay but the seller specifically mentions only shipping to Conus

 

[Bassinthemudd]

Warpedneck.com does great work at reasonable prices. It comes highly recommended by many here at TB.

Edit: Just noticed the OP is in Chile. Warpedneck might not be the best option.

 

[coyote1]

Warpedneck.com does great work at reasonable prices. It comes highly recommended by many here at TB.

Warpedneck actually tells you how to fix your neck, right there on their main page! If you have multiple instruments, have patience and play the playable ones. Wait until summertime. Loosen the strings of your troubled instrument, loosen the truss rod, and put the instrument in a sealed box out in the hot sun for a full day. Bring it in, counterweight (or carefully vise) to counteract the 'trouble' region, and let it come back down to regular temperature. Keep it in its 'reforming' tools for some days.

Obviously, warpedneck will be utilizing tooling they've developed specifically for this job - so their results should be more consistent and less prone to twisting. But you might be successful doing what I just outlined.

 

[dune]

Warpedneck actually tells you how to fix your neck, right there on their main page! If you have multiple instruments, have patience and play the playable ones. Wait until summertime. Loosen the strings of your troubled instrument, loosen the truss rod, and put the instrument in a sealed box out in the hot sun for a full day. Bring it in, counterweight (or carefully vise) to counteract the 'trouble' region, and let it come back down to regular temperature. Keep it in its 'reforming' tools for some days.

Obviously, warpedneck will be utilizing tooling they've developed specifically for this job - so their results should be more consistent and less prone to twisting. But you might be successful doing what I just outlined.

I highly recommend warpedneck.com. I had not read about the above fix on their site, though I have read about it being done a lot with heat lamps. I have assumed that they themselves use silicone heating mats, so I looked into getting some and just doing it myself, but the ones that I would trust to not burn my shop down were very expensive for a one-off usage. Additionally, I am of the opinion there can be as much art as science to it, and they have infinitely more experience in that arena than I do. Not to mention, their prices are beyond reasonable. They fixed the ski-jumped neck from my old G&L El Toro, making it playable again for the first time in nearly 30 years, and also fixed the neck off of an uber-inexpensive Sterling Ray4 which they said was as bad as any they have ever seen. I had been using it as a model to get the original body shape for some 5-strings I was building. I had popped the neck off, completely forgetting to loosen the truss rod and left it hanging in my shop for months. It was the mother of all back bows. I appear to have lost the "before" photos I had, but if they turn up I'll post them.

 

[coyote1]

No no, I don't mean they recommend that. What I mean is they tell you how your neck possibly got warped. If it got warped by sitting in a hot container and being stressed by strings, it stands to reason that being put in a hot container and applying a stress opposite to that exerted by strings should help offset the damage.

 

[GretschWretch]

Warpedneck actually tells you how to fix your neck, right there on their main page! If you have multiple instruments, have patience and play the playable ones. Wait until summertime. Loosen the strings of your troubled instrument, loosen the truss rod, and put the instrument in a sealed box out in the hot sun for a full day. Bring it in, counterweight (or carefully vise) to counteract the 'trouble' region, and let it come back down to regular temperature. Keep it in its 'reforming' tools for some days.

This strongly resembles what I do. I've got a non-running car, and I just loosen the truss rod, clamp the neck into a viscious backbow, and plop the whole device onto the rear deck of this old "beater" car. I roll all the windows all the way up, and leave the neck in the car where the sunlight can bake it for as long as I choose to.