show your diy defrets

My diy. . . . made the body, pulled the frets. modded the headstock. strung with flat rotos, and it thumps.

 

I can see why. Most good basses aren't made of plywood. Most plywood doesn't delaminate like that unless it's left outside for a couple seasons. Most bass players, if given a bass that close to falling apart, would speed up the process with stage bashing, fire, or both.

Maybe it's the missing string. Is this bass in the process of being modified, or does it really have only three strings?

 

thanks, i miss it too. if only my hands were a couple milimeters bigger...

 

only three maybe later on I will get the money to fix the machine heads switch the bridge extension to plexiglass (stronger won't bend plus transparent) and give it 4 strings

 

C'mon, guy. Don't be that way, eh? :scowl:

Back OT... I want to do this soooo bad, and as soon as I get a cheapie bass to hack on, I will be joining the ranks.

 

damn you people give me a wierd kind of GAS (kinda like Indian food)

ive got a squire neck somewhere im gonna work on to hone my skill.....just gotta figure out which bass i could fell ok about defretting

 

The Victim: A replica 70's Jazz Bass bought on eBay for $40.
This is my 3rd defret project. The first one I filled in the frets
with wood and never got it just right and it was basically
unplayable. Second defret I filled in the fretboard with wipe on
poly. The poly was too soft and dulled the tone too much. On
this bass I brushed on epoxy and then saned with a block
sander. It is the best one so far, not perfect, but it sounds
great and is fun to play.


Redid headstock with Di Vinci's Last Supper (covered
with wipe on poly), yanked frets, yanked fretboard dots and
side marker dots, filled in with epoxy, redyed the fretboard,
more epoxy, and yet more epoxy. The fretboard is really hard,
maybe a little harder than my other fretless which has an
ebonal fretboard. Round wounds have not left a mark. Sanded
body and worked in some black leather dye into the grain,
covered with many coats of wipe on poly, sanded and painted
white pick guard black, went over the pickguard with steel
wool and it has not chipped yet. Left to do: Still have to redrill
side position markers in the correct places.



The headstock had a "run in" with a ceiling fan light globe,
the headstock won, but not without a scar (see far right on
headstock)

 

that is an amazingly sexy bass! I love it

 

My Ricky-rethink bass.


Which as you can see needs a set up.