Fretted/fretless switchable neck(on the fly)?

There was a tread on here earlier this week where the OP was a designer of this system and he was testing the economic feasibility by the TB vocal (by written word) response...

 

Correction, the guy that was on here had a different system where the fretboard/fingerboards actually came off and were interchangable. This is the old flip a switch bass, and its been mentioned on here a time or two. Not quite to the level of hte headstock bass thing, but its been seen

 

this has been posted what seems to be every few weeks for quite sometime.

IMO it lives in the category of cars that run on water, household robots and personal jet packs.

very cool as an idea, functionally challenging in reality, usually very expensive.

Wouldn't it easier to just get a second bass or even a doubleneck.

Then again I'll probably be the first to buy one if it ever goes into production.

 

and ill buy it from you when you post it in the TB classifieds.

 

As has been said by others in the other threads about this type of system: If the mechanism lowers the frets, aren't you left with a fretless that has action much high than a typical fretless with a proper setup?

 

The result of high action on fretless mode would bug me.

 

its an optical illusion.

 

And an aural illusion as well?

 

If you do a TB search on that particular Youtube video, you get a few threads:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=478289&highlight=youtube+watch+vb7c3oszhne
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490226&highlight=youtube+watch+vb7c3oszhne
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=494060&highlight=youtube+watch+vb7c3oszhne
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=529335&highlight=youtube+watch+vb7c3oszhne
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=555470&highlight=youtube+watch+vb7c3oszhne

Of course, there are multiple copies of the video on Youtube, so if you search for TB threads linking to other versions of the video, you get:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=556664&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=532847&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=528959&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=443222&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125967&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=386589&highlight=youtube+watch+j2wooizxnks

etc...

So yeah, it's been discussed a few times! The website for the builder is http://www.mikeyguitar.com i f you're interested in more information or other models, though.

Mike

 

yep. its all done with a projector and a trapdoor. Haven't you ever watched scooby-doo.

 

That's awesome and ridiculous. I like it.