Advice regarding Jazz Bass neck plate - Overtightening

[bakerster135]

Hi all,

The other day I took the neck off my AVRI 62 Jazz to do a bit of truss rod adjustment. Before I even took the neck off I noticed a little paint missing around the neck plate (bottom left in picture below). I took the neck off and removed the neck plate, and it seems that the plate has pressed into the paint leaving indentations around 1mm deep in each corner.

Just to clarify that I definitely never over-tighten necks, and I have removed and reattached them on my other basses (poly finishes) without this issue. I just wanted to ask whether anyone else had encountered this? Is this relatively common on AVRI 60s reissues, or has something gone wrong here!?...The bass is finished in nitro paint, and true to vintage specs it does not have a rubber/plastic gasket underneath the neck plate, so perhaps these are contributing factors?

Any advice will be much appreciated!

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[HowieBass]

You're probably on the right track regarding the nitro - it doesn't dry rock hard like a poly finish and probably also why there's no gasket under the plate as these can react with nitro (hence the problem with some guitar stands).