Recent content by Warriors Lance

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Don't buy Glarry strings either. Buy a quality brand.

Unfortunately, shipping from Germany to the US is now very expensive and very slow, making the HB out of your budget range. I have heard $100 is the current rate for guitars. and 4 to 6 weeks.

Looking at those pictures, it would appear that this bass has a plywood fretboard. ie, the fretboard is layers of wood stacked and glued to look like wood grain. That is why the grain looks so straight. The lines straight down the board are the glue lines. The glue will also make the wood...

do you have a link to info about the fretless conversion?

Grinding the frets off? Been thinking about how to do that without damaging the fretboard.... hmmmm.....

I created this YT playlist a long time ago just to learn this. Then I never did anything with it. Maybe it would help you learn: YouTube I just made it public a minute ago. It is by no means an exhaustive source on the topic on YT.

Has anyone tried to remove the frets from the plywood fretboards on these basses without that fretboard coming apart? This looks like something interesting to make a fretless out of

I had that video's webpage in front of me for quite a while yesterday, but just couldn't click the play button. I saw it live, as I was there. I'll have to live with that, because the video is now too depressing to watch.

This BEW is just sooooooo gooooooooodd....... oh man, love love love. I am a hopeless JerryHolic, I confess.....

I can't find that post recently that complained about the volume of these basses. It's the strings. I bought 2 of these Glarry type basses last year. After setting them up, within a couple months, the sound and intonation left both of them. I replaced the strings and without changing...

I doubt anyone can tell whether the neck wood is stable until the instrument is a year old or so. At this price range, I seriously doubt there is any consideration given to aging the wood before shaping the parts. Therefore, we simply don't know if it will stay as it is until time passes. If...

Found this tool set for pulling frets. Might minimize the tearout/pullout of 'wood' fibers. GuitarTechs FRET PULLERS and PRY - 2 Tool Set for Guitar Luthier Chip Stopper | eBay I would fill the fret slots and then level the fretboard, followed by applying high quality super glue to the...

Alternative ways to remove the frets could be to a) heat the frets up rather warm to loosen them and pull them. That might work, or might just make the fretboard come apart easier too. b) Another would be to just remove the plywood fretboard/fingerboard by heat and prying, and then replace...