P-Bass,,,,FRETLESS?

You're kidding, right?

 

maybe im wrong but didnt sting and probably lots of others defret their p?

 

Fender began offering the fretless PBass in 1970, long before anyone ever heard of a fretless Jazz (or de-fretting one, for that matter). You're only 31 years behind. Relax. You can catch up. I own a great '78 fretless P with a maple neck that I wouldn't think of parting with and I recently sold a first-year '70 that, unfortunately, had some neck problems, otherwise, I would have kept it.

 

Exactly.

 

paul simonon of the clash.

 

mmmm...`73 with factory HSC 'only' $975...

 

 

Fretless Precisions are still not that uncommon. Just last week I saw one at the Bass Centre in London, (who happen to have a great collection of vintage Fenders)

notduane - What is that fingerboard made of?

 

...sugar & spice and everything nice?

Sorry. It's maple according to the copy at gbase.com --

(click here)

 

There's a used one at the GC in Dallas that has one of the best necks I have ever played. Great tone, strings practically laying on the fretboard. I'm trying to talk myself into a reason to buy it!

Jeff

 

Ahhh! Is that the GC at Central and Walnut Hill? --
(I can't go in there no more ), or the one at Spring
Valley and the Parkway?

Stay the hell away from the Plano Mars at Parker + Central!
They've got an (SWR) Henry 8x8 marked down (twice now)
to $679 .

 

Well, it is (or was last weekend) at the GC on Parker and Central. The tag says $549, but I was told I could get it for $400. Need a fretless AND a new cabinet

Jeff

 

There's one for sale on Ebay for $800 for anyone interested:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1461604505

 

Shouldn't you be trying to talk yourself out of buying it?

You know that bassists don't need a reason to buy another bass.

 

I still mourn the death of a mid-70's P-bass with a rosewood fingerboard I used to play. It was refinished and I added a Jazz pickup and Badass bridge, so it didn't have any resale value. That bass had wonderful action and great tone, but was stolen from a club. I cried and cried.....When I bought it, I had never heard of a fretless Jazz bass.

 

Just a quick question...does anyone else consider a fretless P-bass a fundamental oxymoron???

 

That very true, Fender called the P bass a P bass cause it had frets and allowed bassists to play with "precision".

 

yah, that's what i thought...Fretless Precision...lol

 

i've got an old mexican pbass from the early 90s, that i added a pickup to; changed the neck because i broke it; defretted; removed the added pickup; replaced the pickguard and knobs....in that order...it'd kind of a mess right now, but it's a work in progress....