Double Bass Warped fingerboard in Las Vegas

[robert_stuart]

This new 3/4 bass did fine for 9 months here, but coming back to it, there's a huge warp that makes the G unplayable. It rubs against the fingerboard. It's warped up about a centimeter on that side. On the other, though, it's actually concave, pointing a little down. Not sure if it's supposed to be like that?

What's usually done here? Replace the fingerboard? Have it planed? The bass is a year old and it's never left my apartment.

 

[Keith Rawlings]

That’s so strange to happen on a year old bass. My Kay is 68 years old and slept in a garage for about 5 years and nothing like that ever happened to it. I would just pull it out of the padded gig bag and go play. We have very high humidity in South Texas as well; so I would think that the dry air in Vegas might actually benefit a double bass.

I would say to take it to an experienced luthier and ask him how to handle it. Ebony shouldn’t do that unless it had some sort of trauma done to it.

 

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

Unseasoned wood will do that.

Probably the cheapest and least intrusive fix would be to heat the board and overbend it so it settles straight. The board may or may not have to come off the neck.

 

[210superair]

Man, that's crazy. Second thread I've asked this in today, but what's the make?

 

[james condino]

Cheap, off quarter, unseasoned, painted black with shoe polish Chinese "eb-on-eeeee"; the same guys who did that cheap offquarter, unseasoned, glue starved separating neck joint in your other thread....