That is a quite remarkable piece of music !
Thanks for sharing. Just seen a tiny desk show of theirs to watch later...
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Show Your Fretless
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That is a quite remarkable piece of music !
Thanks for sharing. Just seen a tiny desk show of theirs to watch later...
I currently own two fretless basses:
1) A Rob Allen MB-2 that my lovely wife bought me for our fifth wedding anniversary in 2007
Swamp Ash body with flamed maple top, maple neck w/ ebony fingerboard, Fishman piezo bridge, Hipshot tuners, LaBella 760N nylon tapewound strings, tuned BEADG
2) a Warmoth frankenbass whose genesis I explained in this post
Alder body with quilted maple top, maple neck with ebony fingerboard, Bartolini quad-coil pickup with NTMB 3-band eq/preamp, Schaller tuners, Ken Smith Slick Round groundwound nickel strings, tuned EADGC
1) A Rob Allen MB-2 that my lovely wife bought me for our fifth wedding anniversary in 2007
Swamp Ash body with flamed maple top, maple neck w/ ebony fingerboard, Fishman piezo bridge, Hipshot tuners, LaBella 760N nylon tapewound strings, tuned BEADG
2) a Warmoth frankenbass whose genesis I explained in this post
Alder body with quilted maple top, maple neck with ebony fingerboard, Bartolini quad-coil pickup with NTMB 3-band eq/preamp, Schaller tuners, Ken Smith Slick Round groundwound nickel strings, tuned EADGC
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That is a quite remarkable piece of music !
Glad you enjoyed it! The Tiny Desk concert is REALLY good! All of their stuff is.
I like what you did here. A cool mix of Ric, J and SCPB, all in a fretless!
A J is easily one of the best platforms for fretless. Plus, yours is black. Extra points for that, too!
That is a quite remarkable piece of music !
The album is stunning. Hoping my vinyl copy arrives at some point.
One is set up BEAD, the rest in standard tuning, mix of rotosound and DR roundwounds.
from the Thunderbird music hall at our Dead of Winter show
- Dec 21, 2007
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- Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones
That's extremely cool. Well done video too.
1982 Ernie Ball Earthwood Acoustic with Texas based inlays by Luthier Bill Badeaux of La Porte, Texas.
Hi guys. This is a good thread to ask some advice. I posted a pic of my Mark Hoopus bass that was defretted. I bought it like that. Works well but I can just barely feel some of the fret markers. I'm gonna eventually smooth them all out. Then I'm not sure what to coat it with. I see super glue and epoxy used. What do you guys think is best? Thanks for any suggestions.
It really doesn’t need a coat of anything, you could just get a radius block and smooth it out.
But if you must coat it, a thin layer of CA will suit most needs. I use cardboard like from a string pack, and use it as a spreader.
CA gel for thicker coats and CA liquid for thinner. You would still likely need that radius block to finish it.
I have a particularly pretty board on my NR Thunderbird, and I want to leave it as natural as possible, so no CA on her, but I’ll spend more time fitting slot veneers to keep it pretty.
First bass I ever built from scratch. Maple body wings, maple/walnut neck through. I did the blueburst with an Iwata Revolution CR air brush and Tamiya acrylics. Clearcoat is automotive acrylic, machine polished. Lacewood fingerboard with a two pack polyester coating intended for motorcycle helmets. DiMarzio PJ set into passive electronics. The bridge and tailpiece are Korean Sung-Il, it just looked so ridiculous I had to have it.
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Yep! AND, it sounds even better than it looks! I used to think a Pedulla Pentabuzz was the best, then I thought a F-Bass was the best, then I bought a Roscoe!
