Fretless necktrough bass

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The strings are on!!! My fretless playing is...entertaining , but it feels and plays ok. I want to lower the slots in the nut a bit more, as I can feel the tension close to the nut. Sounds nice acoustically! Not on the pics is quite some work in drilling and dremeling access routes that needed some tweaking, but so far everything fits nice and snug. I hope to be as lucky with the bulky preamp.

I've made the jack plate out of black plexy, same as the pickguard, and will try to make a tr plug/cover today. The side is a bit curved in that spot, about 1mm difference, so I've ground off the rough profile and refined it on sandpaper, then polished dry on some jeans. If I get some rubber, I'll cut it a gasket.

My little bridge adjuster with piezzo-in-a-sandwich works with no problems and has nice adjustability, so that experiment officialy worked fine!!!

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Well,

It's done! I've included a few more pics, as I'm a horrible photographer, so I've tried both indoors and the outdoors, we had a nice sunny day. Hope you like it!!! I'll try to get my bass-playing friend I've made a bass for a few years back to try it out, so that I can hear what's it really supposed to sound like

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