Sorry Harleyman
Bass guitars are "normally" made of wood, which is an organic material that responds to the varying temperature/humidity conditions of its environment. The only way that I believe that it could be made to not respond in any way would be to totally seal the wood cells in the instrument from its environment. Then you'd basically be playing a piece of plastic, no wood tone/natural harmonics, nothing but vibrating plastic.
I live in what is basically a very dry environment. I built a log home. Over the first 4-5 years, the 10' high walls settled approximately 4" as the logs adapted to the low humidity. I had to design the house with that shrinkage in mind or the doors adn windows would have been crushed. The logs don't really shrink longitudinally because the cellulose cells in the wood are long and thin, oriented along the grain of the wood. As moisture leaves the wood cells, they become thinner. and the overall diameter of the logs gets smaller. Over the seasons of the year my home, which has been here for over 18 years now, continues to move very slightly as the humidity goes up and down.
In this environment, all of my basses, including my Fender which has a varnished fingerboard, have had to have the ends of the frets filed down a touch as the wood slowly shrinks from the lower humidity up here, allowing the ends of the brass frets to protrude a wee bit. That is the nature of wood and I do not see that as a "warranty" issue, unless the vendor expressly warrantied that the wood would never shrink. Unless they had soaked the wood in a penetrating epoxy or something similar - thereby removing the effect of wood on the instrument, that would be a bit misguided in my view.
The very best, most expensive double bass instruments in the world all have to be periodically adjusted due to the way the wood moves when it adapts to the environment in which it finds itself and one does not ship those instruments back to Europe for that tweaking under warranty. Now that my basses have adjusted to this dry climate, if I moved them to south Florida, they would then readjust to the new environment, and I may have more tweaking to do.
I think Peavey made some plastic basses a number of years ago. If you demand that your instrument to never change, buy one of them.
I'm going for the Drake - shrinkage and all.
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