The Fretless Club

[BassBus]

That's not derailing the thread. Really useful info. Thanks.

 

[aikakone]

Wes, have you gotten your copy of the book yet? I'd want to know your opinions.

 

[Benjamin Strange]

Eh, why not?

The Strangeberger:

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- Almost completely unoriginal. Moses neck, Rio Grande Pitbull pickups, Yamaha B1D pickup, gutted electronics. Only original parts are the body and the bridge. My favorite bass in all of creation - HUGE tone, balances perfectly, perfect action/neck shape, and it's got a WHAMMY BAR!

The Ovation Magnum:

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- Yanked out the frets, drilled out the fretboard dots, filled the slots and dots with ebony, gutted the electronics, remagnetized the dead pickups, carved an ebony nut, replaced the tuners with a lightweight Schaller set, set it up as a fanned scale (35"-33.5"). Sounds like a cross between an EB-0 and a Rickenbacker.

 

[spade2you]

Spade2You, your collection is awesome.

Thanks!

 

[GreyBeard]

95 SR-5

 

[SBassman]

Subscribed

 

[Luke73]

I already have a number, but I thought I'd drop by and show you some new pics of my latest fretless bass.

Warwick Corvette STD Fretless Passive with Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats

Arrived last week.

Sounds great

Yum!

 

[CDuff]

Yum Yum!

 

[halimtan]

Luke73, what strings are those? They are beautiful.

 

[halimtan]

My EBMM Sterling, made in 2001, bought off a forum 3-4 months back. My intonation still needs a lot of work, but thats the fun part aint it? Is membership closed already?

Body - ash in high gloss polyester.
Pickguard - shell.
Neck - maple.
Fretboard - lined 22-fret pao ferro fretless.
Bridge - piezo with nickel plated brass saddles.
Pickup - single musicman humbucker.

 

[bh2]

Can I join please?

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Cheers

 

[Fretlessdude]

ill take a number

All these fancy dancey fretleses are making my VM fretless jazz sad he just has some flats and new knobs

 

[Luke73]

Luke73, what strings are those? They are beautiful.

They are the Warwick Black Label strings that shipped with the bass

The strings with the red silk pictured in my post above are Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats.

I no longer have the CS Afzelia Fretless Corvette - I sold it.

 

[Temcat]

Me & my ash/ovangkol Warwick Corvette Standard 4 Fretless with Seymour Duncan pickups. It plays by itself, sings like crazy and has the best sustain of any basses I've come across. My babe

Can I have a number please?

 

[Mike Flynn]

Hey dudes - guess I should ask for a number too - my lovely custom Jeff Chapman 5 string is still going strong. A really fabulous bass made from a single piece of African mahogany with a nice thick slab of ebony for the fingerboard - it has a pretty basic EMG circuit and pups - but it sounds and plays awesome.

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Cheers

Mike

 

[saxofunk]

264. Tim Skaggs
265. Benjamin Strange
266. GreyBeard
267. halimtan
268. bh2
269. Fretlessdude
270. Mike Flynn

Temcat - already in at number 74.

 

[Eggman]

I don't think I am a member of this club yet - so I present:

1963 Fender Jazz - converted to fretless in 1980

Musicman Sterling

Plus I have a Bongo 4 HSP fretless on order

 

[Dreagen]

I already have a number, but I thought I'd drop by and show you some new pics of my latest fretless bass.

Warwick Corvette STD Fretless Passive with Thomastik Infeld Jazz Flats

Arrived last week.

Sounds great

WOW!

That looks killer with that black hardware!

That just convinced me to get some for my 'Wick fretless.

 

[saxofunk]

I don't think I am a member of this club yet

You are now! #271

 

[ryco]

'77 black/black Gibson Ripper bought new from Kalamazoo. Replaced stolen fretless EB3.
Only inst I've ever bought new - peeled the protective paper off the pickguard -- ooooooohhh!

Been thinkin' 'bout getting a white pickguard for it!!
Love her! Name is Bess - never lettin' her go! Too many adventures together!!

GAS: Waiting patiently for Fender to produce an active fretless Jazz V 2 octave. RWA!

Posted this back in May (on my B-day!!). Just acquired a digital camera for my girl, so here's a pic!

black/black/ebony. Any opinions about puttin' on a white pickguard?