Some maple fretless quetions

[Invader Zim]

I'm thinking of using a maple board for fretless and have some questions, would love to hear what everyone thinks about maple for fretless

1. Does maple require a hard wearing finish?
2. What do you think the tone differences are?
3. Would you agree to a Geddy Lee being defretted, if so could you see any pitfalls?

Thanks guys, please add anything else you may think is relevant.

[chris_nairn]

Heck yeah, takes the frets out of the Geddy. Sting has used fretless maple fingerboards. All of my fretless bass have ebony but I would like one with maple too.