| Kay fingerboard
I'm still breaking in the '47 C -1, and I've noticed something quite annoying about this bass (as well as many other basses).
Up on the high end of the fingerboard, where you grip it with your thumb for pizzicato playing, the edge is quite sharp. Now I know you're going to develop a callus there anyway, but why in the world is it designed like that in the first place, and why hasn't someone in the 60-plus years of this bass' existance taken care of the problem? This sharp edge stresses the hand unnecessarily and slows down the player when he's moving his hand up to different places for different sounds. My other bass had the same thing, and I had my luthier round it off when he re-planed the fingerboard.
I really want to do the same thing to his bass, but I'm guessing it'll lower the value since it'll dis-color the area that is filed off. (The fingerboard appears to be original, which would make it rosewood, right?)
Thoughts?
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