After three years, it is still one of best fretless basses I have ever owned. I don’t care if it was only $103 shipped. I put in a used Fender pickup for about $45, and since then, I have not even changed the strings.
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Glarry Fretless P: I still love it!
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After three years, it is still one of best fretless basses I have ever owned. I don’t care if it was only $103 shipped. I put in a used Fender pickup for about $45, and since then, I have not even changed the strings.
i believe it, doc! and it sounds great, too --- it's always the player! 
i believe it, doc! and it sounds great, too --- it's always the player!
Thanks!
Best gig ever!!!
A Tony Franklin fretless P would cost you at least fifteen Franklins, yet your Glarry with the aftermarket pickup cost you barely one Franklin and a Grant. The T.F. ain't that much better than the Glarry.
Still $99 and I've been wanting an unlined to play around on. Why not eh.
The Tony Franklin is a really nice bass if you have the money. I would not mind having one myself, but you can get a whole lot of joy out of a Glarry too.
Hey Cheese, where are the dots on the Glarry? Are they where the frets should be?
The dots are off. I took a tuner and used a Sharpie to mark where the lines should be on the side of the neck.
It's really hard to screw up a fretless P no matter the price point. 
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After three years, it is still one of best fretless basses I have ever owned. I don’t care if it was only $103 shipped. I put in a used Fender pickup for about $45, and since then, I have not even changed the strings.
I have the same bass, and put in real Fender pups, and la Bella Tapes. Great fingerboards, lots of muah. I don't play it much only because I have moved to 5 string. But those basses are really great and a helluva deal for the money.
Glarry are incredible value for the money. Definitely on par with the SX basses of old, though they don't have the same selection or customer service. I got a GW101 for $65 on eBay. Shipped. Absurd value for a tiny bass.
I converted a standard Glarry bass into a fretless before they offered the fretless. New seymour's, bridge and pickguard. It sounds great but my playing days are over so I sold it to a friend and he uses it for recording.
After three years, it is still one of best fretless basses I have ever owned. I don’t care if it was only $103 shipped. I put in a used Fender pickup for about $45, and since then, I have not even changed the strings.
There's no need to spend big to get a good bass these days. I say that as the owner of a £1500er and a £250er.
I hate to read this. To be in the Shoals area with all its musical history, and not playing.
As I mentioned some time ago, October has been my experimental "short-scale only" month. Works fine for the fretted basses -- those I have -- but no short-scale fretlesses. Then the light bulb went on and I converted my Glarry fretlesses to short-scale; just stuck a temporary stick bridge (think flat-top acoustic guitar with a trapeze tailpiece) at the 30" mensure position. Two most attention-grabbing results: with the shorter mensure the P pickup now is in the position where the J pickup would be on a PJ bass, and I now have a full two-octave fingerboard.
I have 6 different 4st fretless basses of different quality, vintage, and scale. They all sound good. I don't think you can go wrong with a passive 4st fretless. Awesome that Glarry offers one everybody can afford.
I own a Glarry 4 string Fretless. I changed out the strings, and installed Fender pups.
It's a great fretless bass. Lightweight. Sounds like a P-bass should.
It's a great fretless bass. Lightweight. Sounds like a P-bass should.
