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Modulus Mob
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did a quick google search on 'removing grooves from phenolic fretless fingerboard' and didn't see much in the way of answers. for you fretless players, any tips, tricks, or techniques in removing the grooves made by strings on a fretless fingerboard?
Planing/refinishing the fingerboard, like with any non-phenolic fingerboard.
Any good guitar tech/luthier can do this, so won't require that you take it to someone who specializes in carbon fiber necks or anything.
Any good guitar tech/luthier can do this, so won't require that you take it to someone who specializes in carbon fiber necks or anything.
plan on doing this myself. figure all i need is various levels of sandpaper grit and time. just thought i'd check with the mob if anyone is stringing their fretless moddy's with rounds and dealing with the string grooves on a normal basis.
does anyone know the radius of the fingerboard of the modulus q5? it's an '01 (truss rod). planning to head over to stewmac for a sanding block.
thanks!
I remember reading somewhere that it's a compound radius, but I have no idea if that's accuarate. The pdf of the manual doesn't have anything in it. Maybe geoff gould would know (did they necks change after he left, other than the truss rod?), otherwise I'm sure Joe Perman could help you out...
They're compound radius- I would not attempt this at home unless you are supremely confident of your abilities or do not care about the results.
For not much more than the cost of the materials, I shop could do it for you, depending on your location. The phenolic board is less work than, say, rosewood.
For not much more than the cost of the materials, I shop could do it for you, depending on your location. The phenolic board is less work than, say, rosewood.
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I would absolutely NEVER do this.. Been working on my own basses for 37 years now. I have a professional luthier take care of anything at all. That is why they are professionals. I would have to
gasp slightly at the idea that just any old guitar tech would have even close to the ability to do this. Wow. I am kind of shocked.. Never in a million years would I trust a box store repair tech (guitar center, sam ash)
or even my local music store tech to do anything like this.
Maybe the more helpful question is, are you concerned primarily about the aesthetics, or are the grooves actually so deep that they affect the playability/sound? It's quite normal for roundwound strings to make superficial marks on fretless boards, but it generally takes a lot of hard playing over a fairly long time to actually wear deep enough grooves to require the board be leveled and dressed unless it's a softer board like rosewood. Phenolic is pretty hard stuff, harder even than ebony I believe, so I'd be pretty surprised to see grooves actually deep enough to require work. I could be wrong, of course!
What are you talking about? I'm talking about a qualified, trained repairmen (hence the use of the term luthier), not a guy who strings guitars at Guitar Center. Where in there did you think I was suggesting a non-professional??
My point was that any luthier who can handle refinishing a fretless normal wood fingerboard can handle phenolic.
i think he meant to quote pnutz who said he was going to do it himself. Not a chance in hell im messing with all that. i would have a heart attack and my bass aint even mint.
got a very very high offer on my TBX on reverb. But i just couldnt do it....
