Glarry Fretless Fingerboard

[EatS1stBassist]

Mine is fretted. I was planning on measuring each fret very carefully and cutting them, on each side, with the dremel cutting wheel. I can then pull out the excess and go to town with a rasp

A little visual...
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I believe you can just heat them up with a soldering iron after using a razor blade on either side of the frets and with a pair of end nippers pull them out.

 

[diegom]

I believe you can just heat them up with a soldering iron after using a razor blade on either side of the frets and with a pair of end nippers pull them out.

I want to keep it fretted. I just don't like the neck profile. Cutting the ends should save me from refretting. Of course, this is all theoretical, since I have not done anything like this before. Simplest solution would be to get a "Glarry-cheap" Jazz neck (1.5" nut, slimmer profile)

 

[EatS1stBassist]

I want to keep it fretted. I just don't like the neck profile. Cutting the ends should save me from refretting. Of course, this is all theoretical, since I have not done anything like this before. Simplest solution would be to get a "Glarry-cheap" Jazz neck (1.5" nut, slimmer profile)

Don’t cut the fret ends. You can run the risk of the strings falling off the at the edges. Just smooth them down real nice leave Sand the crap out of that neck I just did a Glarry neck and it is much better

 

[Dr. Cheese]

The Glarry Fretless is still a crazy good deal on fretless if you don’t mind upgrading. Here is a very short video of me on Sunday. The tone is way better than $153 (Fender pickup included,) bass has a right to be.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Now that bass has some serious mojo!

Not my best. I was nervous and I never wear my bass that high.
Needed to get it up in the shot. Use headphones or sound system.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Not my best. I was nervous and I never wear my bass that high.
Needed to get it up in the shot. Use headphones or sound system.

I am glad you posted a video. You do a good job on the Jaco compositions, and certainly sound like a player at home on your bass.

 

[DJ Bebop]

I am glad you posted a video. You do a good job on the Jaco compositions, and certainly sound like a player at home on your bass.

Thanks, man!

 

[Monkey]

The tales of deep gouges and other horrible destruction of fingerboards are all utter fiction.

Definitive statements like this frustrate me. I've been playing fretless exclusively since the '80s and have experienced fingerboard gouges.

For many years in the early 90's, I played a Carvin 5-string fretless that had an ebony board. I was playing about 120-140 gigs a year for a while and used Rotosound 66s. I did some occasional slapping and my fingerboard developed a groove under the G-string under the 12th to 15th fret positions that got so bad that the G string would dink out sometimes. I filled it in with Superglue. Definitely not fiction.

I moved on to other basses and switched to flats (TI JFs). I haven't had any problems with fingerboards since making the change, even on a maple fingerboard. I would like to try the composite boards like the Glarry.

 

[UNICORN BASS]

Here is a picture of my Okume bodied JB kit bass. I was removing the stock crappy plastic nut when a chunk of the composite board let loose. I had to re work what was left and made a fancy brass nut instead of my usual bone one. Aside from that the composite functions really well.