defretting

Hi everyone, as some of you might have seen, I'm looking for a fretless bass. New Warwick FL basses have ebony fingerboards. I know ebony is great, both because of the sound characteristics, and it's density/durability. However, I've been thinnking of defretting a fretted bass, lately. And...

Hi Experts! Warwick newbie here with another question. I have a Doublebuck fretted that I like the tone of...but...I am in love with fretless basses and am studying fretless instructional booklets with a music teacher currently. A fine luthier (P. vonSchmidt) suggested placing maple filler...

I had an Ibanez P-bass copy that was going to be case-bound when I got my 'Vette, so I decided to make it a fretless. I tried Casey's epoxy finish, but when I was taking the tape off the neck, the epoxy ripped pulled a piece away from the fretboard (which was a blessing in disguise, because I...

I thought I'd add to Casey's defretting guide with another on how to do it and add veneer liners. I used a Peavey Grind bass as my victim - I bought it for £70 off Ebay... Sadly I didn't take pics of the first couple of stages....I thought I had but realised that I'd removed the Flash card -...

As requested by Benjamin, I've decided to put up a guide on doing a fretless mod to a bass (or even geetar) I'll show you how to do either a clear epoxy coating or a black epoxy coating. What you'll need: Tape Razor blade Sandpaper (grits; 100 - 250 - 450 - 600) Sanding block Epoxy...

My basses are a Warwick Thumb 5 BO, MusicMan Stringray 5, Tobias 5 string, 1996 Bass Collection 5 string (Japanese made bass) and a cheap fretless 5. I am thinking about defretting my Bass Collection because I love the tone and the feel of the bass and have had it for 12 years now. Rather...