Experimental project bass: need some help

[Vince S.]

For a project (not school, just myself), I am taking apart my old beginner bass (a Hamer Slammer P-bass clone), and modifying it. This is what I plan to do:

1. Sand down and repaint the body.

2. Turn it into a fretless.

3. Replace pickups and bridge.

For task 1, how do I go about doing this? I have already removed the neck, the pickguard/pickups, so it's just the body. Is there a 3 step paint process like on cars? What kind of paint should I use?

Task 2...How do I remove the frets? and what after that? I want to paint in fret lines also.

And as for task 3, I think I'm going to look around in the For Sale section to buy some old parts.

Thanks in advance.

[superbassman2000]

here's a pretty good site for defretting


http://www.seangallagher.net/Miscell...efretting.html


Charlie