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Show Your Fretless Bass

#61
My Zon...

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#62
These are all I got... from before I cleaned her up and put on new strings a week or so ago. I remember finding her in store...

Modulus Fretless Quantum 4
I suck at pictures.

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and with her fretted brother...
Modulus Fretted Vintage Jazz 4

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#66
RunngDog said:
Fender Custom Shop Jaco relic:
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I played one of these at a GC a few months ago and man, did it just sound MASSIVE. It had the biggest, fullest, roundest mwah I had ever heard. The thing sounded killer. It must be a beast and sure has a unique look.
 
#70
This pic is actually of all my 5'rs... I don't have one of just the fretless currently. The Stambaugh single-cut is the fretless... it's been posted around here a few times before. I love playing it, however it hasn't been seeing as much time since I picked up the DJ5.

Alright, now I feel bad... I'm going to go play it now.
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#72
Suburban said:
Here's mine ...avenbok f'board.
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Interesting!... had to look it up... sounds like a great fretless f'board wood...

Carpinus orientalis: Oriental Hornbeam—Carpinella, Charme d’Orient, Eastern Hornbeam, Hojaranzo, Oosterse Haagbeuk, Orientalisk Avenbok

The Hornbeam is a small tree that grows in mixed deciduous forests in the shade of taller hardwoods in bottom lands and river margins. It grows in association with oaks, sweetgum, hickories, maple and basswood. The tree grows slowly and is short lived.

The tree’s name (horn=tough and beam~baum=tree) describes the wood, which is tough, hard and heavy. Colonial settlers in America used it for bowls and dishes because it rarely split or cracked. Hornbeam has a thick, nearly white sapwood and a heartwood which is pale yellow to tan. It has no characteristic odor or taste. The wood is heavy and hard.
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#78
gottawalk said:
Beautiful wood. Nice thumbrest!;)
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That's the worlds' first Wendler Electrocoustic 5 string. The body is cedar. The thumbrest is actually there to hide the cable from the magnetic pup to the piezo bridge (passive blending). The body is too thin for a rear-rout and I didn't want a pickguard, so the thumbrest was the best idea we could come up with.
 
#79
ElBajista said:
I seriously can't understand why this bass hasn't sold yet. That is probably the BEST looking fretless I've ever seen. Man, I wish I had the cash for that thing.

Where did you get the pickguard? What kind of wood and finish?
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No secret - here's my source:

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Lots of choices. Can't remember offhand exactly what it is I bought. Check out the customer pics - lots of really nice combinations. Some of the lighter woods make a nice replacement for a white or parchment guard.
 
#80
BillyB_from_LZ said:
Wow, that's pretty wild!!!

What are the switches(?) above the fingerboard?

and...Happy Birthday a few days early!!!
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Thanks - to both.

The 'switches' are actually pots without knobs. Still haven't found any good knobs for them...
It's the EQ, treble, bass, mid and mid freq, from the headless end down.

And Vic: hornbeam/avenbok is brings a smile to your face when you work with it - providing it's sufficiently dryed...;)
 

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