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Just a little update. I took the bass to a local luthier. He has proper heat pressing equipment and was quite hopeful that he can save the neck.

I did some bending exercises. I suspended the neck on a wood block with two smaller smaller pieces of wood. A clamp provided the bending power. Heating was provided by a 500W halogen work light. I tried to move the light around but it was pretty difficult to get an even heat coverage. I did this for ...

I just performed trussrodsectomy. The operation was successful and the patient is feeling only mild soreness in the neck area. Seriously, the truss rods came out quite easily and look good to me. They are not curved so rotating them is no use. I put some pictures into my Dropbox. The pic with ...

Thanks everybody for your input. Looks like my initial thoughts were in a right direction. Here is what I am going to do:
1) Take out the truss rods and inspect them.
1a) If they are mechanically broken, buy new ones and replace them.
1b) If functional, rotate 180 deg and insert back.
If this works ...

Did you just rotate the rods 180 degs and inserted back or did you reverse the curve with hands before putting them back?

I pulled the rods out of my 4003 (it's simple if you know what you're doing), they were curved, so I reversed the curve - inserted them back into the neck with a back-bow curve ...

I posted the same thing on the official Rickenbacker forum. I have not received any replies so decided to try here also. I hope it is not against any rules.

Hi all, I am helping a friend with a 1995 4003 bass. It has developed a fret buzz and high action problem. I thought it would be a simple ...