Ricardo Alves

I've tried the washer solution and it worked perfectly! Pretty strange that he didn't try it out, maybe he was afraid of damaging the bass.

A couple weeks ago I took my Squier VM 70's Jazz Bass to a luthier so he could set it up for me (I can make the basic adjustments by myself, but the bass also needed some fret leveling / polishing), and he said that when he was adjusting the neck relief, he wasn't able to tighten the truss rod anymore after a certain point (it's not that he was tightening it and it wasn't making any difference, the wrench literally wouldn't turn anymore!). My bass' neck is a little bent (I know it's normal to be a slightly bent) and I think that if it was slightly less concave it would be perfect, but as the truss rod won't tighten any further we couldn't make that adjustment. Note: I used to make the adjustments by myself, but I had always been quite apprehensive about adjusting the truss rod. I never forced it too much, I always made only 1/4 turns and always waited a few hours between those turns. Does it mean that my neck is warped or it's just a problem on the truss rod? What may be causing this? What can I try to do to solve this problem? Thanks for anyone who answer this question! PS: Sorry if my english is not perfect, I'm not a native speaker! EDIT: I am able to turn the wrench it to the other direction (to give it more relief), so it's not locked at an specific position.