Show Your Fretless

[666satan]

Here’s my 1967 Ibanez Fretless P Bass (Made in Japan) that was in need of some love. Yellow rattle can over white. Electronics were junk. Neck was worth 3 times the price I paid. Fretless baseball bat Maple with a thick Ebony fretboard.
Stripped, sanded, Hard Rock Maple body, refinished in Tobacco burst, Fender N.O.S. vintage ‘63 pickups, David Starr (Texas) drop in electronics with a Del Ritmo capacitor, Flatwounds, white pearl pickguard.
And she’s a thumpin’ machine!
But like everything else, she’s for sale…

 

[mbluto]

1984 Pedulla Interceptor Fretless (Buzz)... only Interceptor model that is fretless to my knowledge... Can't believe I was going to sell this one last year, but things worked out in a good way... absolute bliss...

 

[Bob Trier]

As I got back into the Bass world after a short "hiatus"..(25 years), I wanted something that could inspire me. I figured a Fretless would do the trick...it did! I built this with a solid Cherry body, from a Jazz Bass template with a little sculpting, Bartolinis , a Babicz Bridge, Warmoth neck and D'Addario Flatwounds... I just love it!
Check it out!...

 

[jnottoli]

Mine's a Carvin J bass-style kit:
- I sanded, stained, tung oiled, steel wooled and waxed it
- Alder body, flat sawn maple neck, ebony board
- Lane Poor jazz-style pickups, passive electronics
- Leo Quan BadAss II bridge
- Thomastik Jazz Flats

On the headstock is an inked "J": I'm Joe - this is my "J" bass - ha, ha!

Mmmm, mmmm, sounds warm & woody!

 

[tstone]

I cobbled this lined conversion together from two different Mexican P-basses plus various spare parts. I pulled the frets and inlaid the fret slots with strips of ivory. I had salvaged some ivory keytops from an old piano that had been burned up in a local house fire. Now they live on in another musical instrument. The standard position dots looked too big for a fretless, so I drilled them out, replaced them with rosewood plugs, and inlaid a tiny MOP dot in the center of each plug.

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[El Diablo Rojo]

Yamaha BB350F

 

[cbdriver]

 

[DJ Bebop]

Okay August 1970 telecaster frets removed graduated hand carved walnut fret lines installed body shaped and refinished. Hey, I was 18. What did I knowView attachment 4541973

Sorry...

 

[dgmc440]

A bit of a fan of the MCs back in the day. The regular fretted is out of sight, closer to hand.

 

[Bar Band Bassman]

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Can't believe I had to scroll through 7 pages before I saw a Marleaux Diva! Here's mine!

 

[Vic]

Can't believe I had to scroll through 7 pages before I saw a Marleaux Diva!

IKR??? Man, Divas are just unbelievable instruments. Played them at NAMM shows and just couldn't pull the trigger, but always blown away by them. Plus Gerald is just a super great guy.

 

[Vic]

Here are my two...

This one is a beautiful bass, but I'm sticking with the above... just what I'm used to. See my signature if you're interested.

 

[ConcePierre]

My newest fretless Warmoth build!

 

[KennyV]

Pino was a big reason I took up the fretless back in the 80’s

 

[Agitpropre]

Just for the sake of transparency...

 

[Mark Karwan]

Is that a Bass or a Rainbow Trout?

Brown Trout!

 

[Fretless_gurl]

L-R: 1990 Ibanez SR800LE conversion, 1976 Fender P, 2021 Fender P Tony Franklin

 

[aearn]

1968 Ampeg AMUB-1

 

[Vic]

This is an awesome thread. And yeah, wish I could play like Pino. Jeez.

 

[Westernedger]