yo i was really bored last night and decided hell ill make two of my basses fretlees so i was reading how to. And the one bassplayer mag i have with randy jackson on the cover had a section on jaco and the bass of doom or whatever and so i was reading and it said he did it with a butter knife and i decided to do it with a knife and so i got to work and to tell you it didnt come out all that bad and so i got a acoustic ibanez and a piece of **** squier fretless anyone else do the same or just made somethin fretlles
Haha, cut him a bit of slack, he's new. Welcome to TB. There's a whole sticky on defretting around here somewhere if you look hard enough.
i didnt fill em yet but its goin to be filled with wood fillier and mark wilson he didnt have to read a mag to have section put on his bass
Yeah.. The wannabe thing was definitely either a joke or a troll. Ignore it. I did mine.. I used a pair of end cutters I ground down flush (less gouging than a butter knife. Filled it with bondo, then surfaced it with some superglue. It came out awesome. <$20 in materials, and I turned a bass that I never played anymore into something useful. -Nick
I recently defretted my Fender Squier Precision. It would play nicely if it wasn't a piece of crap. It's probably because I'm not such a huge fan of the Precision sound, and the lack of a bridge pick-up kind've takes away the specific sound I want. I make up for it by leaving roundwounds on there though. I can always resand the thing if I want to fix the scratches. Flatwounds are on my Warwick fretless Let me know how yours play when they're finished.
I practiced on an electric guitar the first frettless I made... So I have a frettless guitar now... hard to play chords on!
Yea but i didnt use a butter knife i used like a hunting knife and it really didnt do that all of damage just some slight chips but that should be no problem
Can't you heat the fret up a bit first with a soldering iron to help melt some of the glue to make removing easier?
He didn't say it was holeless, he said it was fretless. Fill in those grooves and file down the nut. Give it a good setup and you'll be amazed. H
When I read the thread title "OMG I pulled a Jaco" all I could think was "What, you woke up the neigbors by playing basketball in the schoolyard at 5:00 AM?"
Might help if they're glued. I tried this on mine, but realized it wasn't doing anything, so I just pulled the rest. {} {} A little jaggyness on the top couple frets. The rest came out really nicely. You can do it nicer with hardwood, but I'm happy with it.