Sunday afternoon is alright for baking.

Baked Fender anyone?

175 degrees for one hour.

Too toxic for the home oven? Hmmm.

 

Holy cow. It worked 100%.

All back together with a straight neck and some low arse action.

 

I was worried that it would revert after 24 hours. But it's all good. I checked the setup again today and it's good.

 

Still good but not full spring here yet. It actually snowed this week.

 

No. The ski jump is a little different. You can have a maxed out truss rod and not have the jump. This neck just had too much relief and had run out of truss Rod adjustment.

For the ski jump there is a flat part (or sloping up) at the neck heal, then a lot of relief.

 

You've got some nerve!

 

I would. Just have a thermometer in there to check your oven. Good inner oven tenp is 150F.

Clamping to a solid straight edge is the hardest part. I made it backbow while clamped a very slight bit. Made sure it was straight in the clamps. Loosen the truss rod first.

When you take it out of the oven it may still be ever so slightly back bowed or straight. Then string tension will put relief. The truss Rod should work well enough now to counter.

If your action is still too high and your bridge saddles are on the bottom you need a small shim. Since you are fixing the neck angle and can try to get lower action, this is a common thing to need to do especially on Fenders.

Once the relief and action are good you can address remaining skip jump issue. If the frets are large enough you could probably level them. Beats taking off the fret board and planing the neck. Then getting a new fretboard and starting from scratch. Do the nut, relief and action first before evaluating the jump. None of that usually costs any money if you do it yourself.

 

I kept the headstock out of the oven a bit just in case.

 

And I don't know which types of finishes (on neck) might not fair well.

 

One thing I believe I haven't yet mentioned: it did darken the neck ever so slightly. Hardly noticeable.