Fretless Neck Epoxy

[Jake Kobrin]

Hi,

I own a squier vintage modified fretless jazz bass and I'm wanting to epoxy-coat the neck in order to get that excellent bright tone and so that the roundwound strings I am using stop wearing down the neck.

What I was wondering is if I could use a urethane clear coat like what they put on cars in order to do it. I have experience with custom airbrushing and spraying this clear coat, I am just unsure how the wood (Ebenol in this case) would react to the Urethane. The paint jobs I have done in the past on wood have been sealed and primed before coated with clear coat. The clear coat is extremely durable, however, and would certainly be able to last very long on the bass.

Alternatively, can the marine epoxy be applied with a spray gun?

Thank you,
Jake

 

[joeyl]

isn't ebonol hard enough as it is though?

 

[jpfbass]

isn't ebonol hard enough as it is though?

No it can still be damaged by rounds, and worse the marks left are a weird whitish color

 

[Jake Kobrin]

^ Yeah there are all of these weird white marks on it.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Yes, if I recall ebonol is used in making bowling balls and, printing press oscillator rollers. It's very hard. I've been playing a squier vintage modified fretless jazz bass with rotosound swing bass 77's (round wounds) since they came out (about 3 years?). Only light scratching on the fretboard.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Yes, there will be some marking, but it's not going to dig in the ebonol like it would on rosewood.

 

[Reticle]

Urethane and Epoxy are two entirely different things and Epoxy most definitely can not be applied with a gun (at least with a finish type gun, to my knowledge ).

 

[Jake Kobrin]

Ok, I decided I'm not actually going to do this.

But still, I get a lot of friction from the strings when doing slides and such. Does anyone have any tips on how to relieve this?