NBD: cheapo fretless 6-string

"Douglas" brand. A coworker bought it off rondo some years back and quickly tired of it.

Fingerboard is a little sharp on the edges, but the playing surface is smooth and flat. Sounds way better than I expected, it's light, and it neck dives less than my L2500.

Straight neck, plays all right. Don't like the dead flats that are on it, but I'll live with em. The wood looks good,a straighter grain on the fingerboard than my mid 80s MiJ Fender fretless.

I'm developing an expensive cheap bass habbit.

 

Jokes on me, I kinda like the flats, and this thing plays pretty damn good with a totally workable active dual-humbucker sound. Side dots are in the right place and it's almost intonated with medium action. I might see how low I can drop the action and get the high strings into tune with themselves tomorrow. Then I've got to figure out how to customize the head stock with my own waterslide decal.

Moar pics because that's what we're all here for, right?

 

This one isn't too bad in the neck dive department. Not nearly as bad as my tribute L2500 with it's basswood body, chunky neck and cheap tuners.

This is well balanced in comparison, probably in part due to what looks like a brass bridge.

 

My first thought was to keep the wood and upgrade everything else. After spending an evening playing it, I'm not feeling that need. It sounds pretty good imo.