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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...

my fretboards look like that too. I had considered buying a second P bass and pulling the frets, but that tends to be a very very bad idea with plywood fretboards, so I would have to get the frets out another way...... wonder how hard it is to grind the frets off? certainly not as hard as evo...

Agreed, it isn't a real upright thing to do. That kind of bad behavior is common today. There are many reasons for that, but discussing those wouldn't fit in this thread. Not sure how one redirects his customers to the real McCoy's that are new for less money. Defunding the seller would...

His buyers are getting burned. Maybe stealing the review is illegal. But in the end, it is basically just scalping the unwary. To the careful discerning buyer, this is a big fat nothing burger. Does anyone know that it is illegal somewhere?

your bass probably has all of the same issues that merseymale's bass does. my glarry J and noname P are both 20 fret basses and my tuning machines do not go over the edge of the headstock. Go look at the pictures from merseymale and see if yours are alike

20 or 21 frets?

and there are these kits too Link Removed Also, Thomann is the largest music instrument seller in the world, so they aren't a fly by night operation. There is a long thread on TB for their house brand called Harley Benton. Here: I own a Harley Benton club Interesting thread of someone doing...

Looks like the neck is not lined up straight.... Are the strings really that far off to the B string side? Maybe the bridge got misplaced......

I have basically the same experience, other than my truss rod issue. I also bought the sunburst color. I don't have a scale to weigh mine on, so I don't know how heavy it but it is lighter than most.

Okay, I hope this helps folks understand what I meant when I say that the truss rod sunk when I tightened it on the noname P bass. As I tightened the nut, it moved towards the back side of the neck, the side where your thumb is. I was not trying to say that it moved towards the bridge. I took...

If you note in my review of the noname P bass, I said that the allen key socket of the truss rod sunk lower into the neck as I tightened it. I would not think such an instrument would make a stable backup. There is a fault there somewhere. I am only guessing, but I think that the truss rod...

After seeing the neck misalignment pictures quoted by FingerDub, I went back and looked at the rest of merseymale's pictures and then I went and looked at my basses. My necks on mine are more properly installed than what is in those pictures. Also, my tuning machines are not misaligned like...

Wow, that is seriously off. I just went and checked, and the Glarry J is well centered, while the noname P is slightly off, but nowhere near that far misaligned. Luck of the draw, I guess.

looks like the pickup poles don't exactly line up with the strings

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Glarry J bass: ordered 2-28-19, arrived 3-8-19 noname P bass: ordered 2-28-19, arrived 3-12-19 ordered from different ebay seller id's, both of which claimed to be in Dayton, NJ, but shipped from the same city in CA. Both basses are currently sold out of all colors.

The noname $54 P bass arrived today. The wood looks okay and as does the finish. The fret work is like the Glarry J bass, quite decent. The truss rod was in need of adjustment. Upon adjusting it, the allen key socket kinda sunk into the neck. I am not sure that the allen key can be used...

The strings to output jack have a very low resistance, so the bridge IS grounded. Not sure why I can hear noise when I stop touching the strings, but it is there. I never hear noise like that when I play any of my strats or strat copies, or my other basses. Also, there is some neck dive to...

About the Glarry J bass, the fret work is better than any other low priced instrument I have ever bought. Not one fret scratches you, nor do any stand up too high causing fret buzz. This was definitely not expected! Thanks, Glarry, you are better than my Squier's and Ibanez's!

Yep, glad to be of help. At the same time that I bought the Glarry J bass, I also purchased a noname P bass, the cheapest one on ebay at $54.79! It is coming from the same city, but is way behind in shipping. It is supposed to be here Monday.

Fault found, the strings are not grounded so you get that in/out noise when you touch/untouch the strings. :rollno:

I purchased the J bass Glarry in the same color scheme. It came in the mail just 3 hours ago. The back being black hides the knot in the body. The pickguard hides it on the front side. My bridge is not as off as the picture earlier in the thread, but it is not a perfect 90 degrees to the...

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] It did not last long..... and no, I did not get it, did anyone else here?

If one pulled the frets on one of these things, would it mwah? of course one would fill the slots and epoxy or CA the fret board and sand sand sand. But the ? remains..... I have lots of excess thin CA going no where.....

The climate here is basically the same, I am a few hundred miles east of you. Thanks for the heads up

Sorry that it did not work out. Good luck looking for a new axe.