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How many fretless basses?
- Thread starter Matthew_84
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Two - a MIM with flats for as close to an upright as I can get and a Squier with the bowling ball fretboard with stainless rounds to "mwah" me till I turn blue in the face.
I have 3 currently, a Gamma Beta, a G&L L-2000 with a replacement neck made by a luthier, and an AmStd P-Bass. I only have one fretted bass 
I'm trying to sell the L-2000 and the P-Bass to fund another Gamma fretless, so that would drop me down to 2 fretless basses.
I'm trying to sell the L-2000 and the P-Bass to fund another Gamma fretless, so that would drop me down to 2 fretless basses.
I have 2; A 1974 Fender Precision with Maple neck, and a Micheal Kelly Dragonfly 5. So one solid body and one ABG.
The fretless Dragonfly has become my bass of choice for my praise band, it sounds great but doesn't work well on loud stages...
The fretless Dragonfly has become my bass of choice for my praise band, it sounds great but doesn't work well on loud stages...
I don't have any fretted basses.
I have 3 (soon to be 4) fretless:
Cheapo Ashton that I defretted and LOVE!
Old Maya j bass that I'm reworking. Gonna add a maple top, replaced the fingerboard, lots of repairs, 4 string with P pup in jazz position. Maple neck/ebony board, ash body.
Getting a 5 string to defret. Borrowed an ibanez 5er and LOVED it. Gonna buy one, defret it, take out active electronics, install ramp. Gonna be my main player if all goes well.
Old romanian carved double bass, I love this bass more than anything I own. I was given it for free, then given the parts for free, then given the strings for free. I fall in love with this bass every time I play it!
I have 3 (soon to be 4) fretless:
Cheapo Ashton that I defretted and LOVE!
Old Maya j bass that I'm reworking. Gonna add a maple top, replaced the fingerboard, lots of repairs, 4 string with P pup in jazz position. Maple neck/ebony board, ash body.
Getting a 5 string to defret. Borrowed an ibanez 5er and LOVED it. Gonna buy one, defret it, take out active electronics, install ramp. Gonna be my main player if all goes well.
Old romanian carved double bass, I love this bass more than anything I own. I was given it for free, then given the parts for free, then given the strings for free. I fall in love with this bass every time I play it!
I have 2, a Squier VM with an SX rosewood board neck but otherwise stock, and another parts Jazz with a Moses unlined graphite neck and Audere pre. I like them both
Only one...
5-string jazz bass, ebony lined board, Seymour Duncan single coils with a 4-band Audere preamp.
Too bad my playing is still not up to par on it - nice bass, sounds great.
Dan K.
5-string jazz bass, ebony lined board, Seymour Duncan single coils with a 4-band Audere preamp.
Too bad my playing is still not up to par on it - nice bass, sounds great.
Dan K.
I have three...
1) A really, really ugly Westone Steinberger knockoff that I bought for $80 in a pawn shop during college and took the frets out of. Sounds really good!
2) A zebrawood 5 string Lonnybass with an ebony fingerboard. Very warm and upright-like.
3) A brand new (finished last week) 5 string Lonnybass with a AAAA tiger maple fingerboard coated with epoxy. A mwah machine and a crazy visual to see all those stripes where frets would normally be (and not be)!
Lonnybass
1) A really, really ugly Westone Steinberger knockoff that I bought for $80 in a pawn shop during college and took the frets out of. Sounds really good!
2) A zebrawood 5 string Lonnybass with an ebony fingerboard. Very warm and upright-like.
3) A brand new (finished last week) 5 string Lonnybass with a AAAA tiger maple fingerboard coated with epoxy. A mwah machine and a crazy visual to see all those stripes where frets would normally be (and not be)!
Lonnybass
Here's a picture of the one with the tiger stripe fingerboard:
Since the flash kind of washes the flame out a bit, here's a good picture of the fingerboard before the neck was attached to the body:
Since the flash kind of washes the flame out a bit, here's a good picture of the fingerboard before the neck was attached to the body:
I just have one, a Sage Green Metallic Standard Jazz Fretless. I am still in the learning phase so one is all I need until I become so comfortable playing it that I start to perceive some deficiency in it. Of course that day may never come even if I become a master of the four string fretless. It is a nice bass with the usual Jazz Bass tonal range and while there are nicer basses yet, it potentially is sufficient to fulfill all my fretless needs, now and forever.
Ken
Ken
I have one and a half.
(1) Steinberger XM3 lined fretless
(2) Washburn Doubleneck (headless)
This is like the one in a couple of those old Whitesnske videos(Rudy Sarzo, I think)
(1) Steinberger XM3 lined fretless
(2) Washburn Doubleneck (headless)
This is like the one in a couple of those old Whitesnske videos(Rudy Sarzo, I think)
I have one, a Peavey Axcelerator with the 2Tek bridge and VFL ups. Sounds fantastic, but since I'm pretty much a 32" player now, I have my eye on a Birdsong Embrace.
