I was sitting in school thinking about bass guitars (as I tend to do), and got the thought of having frets made of wood. I thought to myself 'Self, why don't people actually try this? It'd be pretty cool'.

So, does anyone know an example of someone doing this? I guess the obvious answer is that the strings would eat up the frets much quicker than frets made of metal, but is there any other reasons?

Thanks in advance.

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=273256&highlight=wooden+frets

:)

As Mr. Greenman has posted, it has been discused before. But you might be able to get away with it(even with softer woods) if you used gut strings.

Thanks. I guess I was using the wrong search terms. It does answer a few of my questions, although I didn't really care if I got a fretless sound. I just wanted to see if it could be done.