Your favorite fretless?

[hailet]

My early-'70s Guild M-85 II - fun little bass!

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That's a really pretty bass. I'm jealous. It's the style I'm looking for in a fretless. Really very nice.

 

[snyderz]

US SB-2 followed closely by my L1K. I've had about 35 fretless basses, and loved each and every one of them.

 

[coyote1]

I had a Laguna Ocean fretless for a few weeks. Neck thru, inexpensive, sounded awesome. Had the trussrod not been unrepairably loose in the neck, it would be my fave.

 

[Got2SadowskyNYC]

I said Pedulla because I've always wanted one. I own a Curbow IEP 6 string fretless.

 

[Down_Low]

Stingray

 

[basmansam]

Rickenbacker 4001FL

Guild Pilot 602 FL

 

[danielfnj96]

I really like my hot rodded Douglas Frettless P Bass, it has a very unique tone to it.

 

[petermca17]

I'm lucky enough to have a Warwick Streamer LX SE 2010 4 string Fretless. It has Bartolini passive pickups with a Bartolini preamp, unlined ebony fretboard, ovankol neck, redwood top, ash back. Love it!

 

[GM60466]

Waterstone Lulu

 

[Planet Boulder]

I also like my Japanese hand-built System Craft, but I'd like a lot better if the neck wasn't so finicky...

 

[jim777]

high end custom six-string fretless with a Fender Jazz vibe

That is really cool There are a TON of nice basses in this thread!

 

[dtyndall]

I'm sure there are better fretless basses out there, but I love my Schecter Studio-4. For $699 it can't be beat.

 

[iunno]

The Ibanez Gary Willis Sig. I've only played the GWB35, but that was amazing, so much nicer than the fretless Jazzes I tried.

 

[hieronymous]

That's a really pretty bass. I'm jealous. It's the style I'm looking for in a fretless. Really very nice.

Thanks! To possibly curb your jealousy, realize that it's short scale (about 30"), the Guild humbuckers are not the greatest pickups - they're cool but not much high end, hence the sludgebucker moniker, and it's so old that the finish started coming off the back of the neck when I tried to polish it!

On the plus side, it looks and plays great! I've seen other factory fretless Guilds from around the same time (JS-II for example) but this is the only M-85 fretless that I've seen. I was looking for a short scale fretless when I bought it - makes a nice companion to my (fretted) Gibson Triumph.

 

[Eggman]

Carvin AC40F without sound hole. Awesome. That and my NS Wave EUB.

 

[Hobobob]

I played a Veillette semi-acoustic at NAMM that literally took my breath away. It was absolutely effortless to play, and depending on where I set the tone control (piezo pup) and where I plucked, I could get a giant range of almost-upright to electric tones. I will have one, one day.

 

[robcollins]

Rickenbacker 4003FL

 

[Wallace320]

Other than that one in particular, Warwick Corvette (5 strings in my case) which is my present only fretless bass guitar, and sportin' a beautiful and precise unline tiger stripe ebony finger board

Cheers,
Wallace

 

[Munjibunga]

Pedulla ThunderBass/ThunderBolt.

 

[Roy Vogt]

Carvin LB76W Claro Walnut with humbucker at bridge and piezos.
It sounds like this: