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Yummy fretless.

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So I defretted my old bass. It is now a lined fretless. I pulled out the frets, filled em with wood filler, sanded down the filler being careful to maintain the radius of the fingerboard and i have now arrived at a fretless bass. I still need to put some type of finish over the neck, So it won't die quick. will post pics when it's done.
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cool wish my bass was frettless but then no slapping. :( :cry: :cry:
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Well I've got a couple'o basses so I can slap with the Warwick(s) and get some smoooooth fretless action.
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ya i want a frettless jazz bass
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bassman462 wrote:but then no slapping. :( :cry: :cry:
Why not?
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I don't slap on the fretless for a few reasons. Number one it's got flat rounds, number two i don't want to fark up the fretboard. it's not a very hard wood, so i'm just leaving it to be played fingerstyle. You can slap a fretless all you want but I've heard it's not the best thing for the wood.
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getting the buzz off the frets.
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Post by street fish »

Slapping on a fretless has a very cool sound to it.

On the fretless you converted yourself, just put about 10 layers of lacquer on it. You can always sand the lacquer down and redo it yourself if it gets too much wear in it-- just make sure the string wear never gets down to the actual wood.

Or just slap some epoxy on it and call it good.
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i like tictacs wrote:So I defretted my old bass. It is now a lined fretless. I pulled out the frets, filled em with wood filler, sanded down the filler being careful to maintain the radius of the fingerboard and i have now arrived at a fretless bass. I still need to put some type of finish over the neck, So it won't die quick. will post pics when it's done.
well moron i still have a quantum fretless now don't i.
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well moron i still have a rig i definatley don't deserve
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well i only have one crap bass so stop making me feel bad :cry: :cry:
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i wanna see pics of this shit. GIT IT UP MIKE
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wanna see a pic of the my bass wich is a piece of sh!t look in the toilet after you take a crap and you will.
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