Omg i pulled a jaco

Pfft.
Jaco didn't read any magazines.
Wanna-be.

 

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.

 

What did you fill the holes with?

 

He was joking, son.

Relax.

 

Sentences. They are your friends.

 

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!

 

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?

 

Yeah, I've heard of a lot of guys doing that.

 

Lol im struggling to figure out how its really a fretless with 21 or so holes in the neck ?

 

There isn't any frets in them holes.

 

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

 

+1 just dont let the soldering iron sit on the fret to long

 

I used a clothes iron! Worked a charm too!

 

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.