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Post by mward on Jan 27, 2007 23:30:57 GMT -7
On the weekends my buddy and I like to get together and work on guitars. Fret jobs, new nuts, saddles, odd projects... today I took one of my wife's bass guitars and made it fretless.
I pulled all the frets out and cut strips of oak on the table saw .023" wide and epoxied them into the fret slots as markers. We sanded the board smooth as silk and put some nice rotosound nylon ribbonwound strings on there. Sounds freakin' awesome, very much an upright bass sound, smooth and woody in tone. Interestingly, the most astonishing thing about playing fretless is sliding up the neck. It's just a smooth slide like a trombone, not stepped like on a guitar. All in all, a successful super guitar ninja day.
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Post by Hohn on Jan 29, 2007 21:45:10 GMT -7
Cool. Playing fretless definitely takes a little more precision as to intonation. If you're like me and don't get to play bass much, it's pretty tough to get the feel for again.
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Post by mward on Jan 30, 2007 8:37:34 GMT -7
Yeah I did this for my wife. I don't play bass enough and I'm too sloppy when I do to mess with a fretless bass. It was a sound she didn't have so I thought I'd whip it up from one of her other basses instead of buying another one.
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