Making A Fretted Neck Fretless.

[Paper Snowman]

In the future, I'd like to put together a fretless guitar. I can't seem to find any fretless necks for sale, so I was wondering if it would be plausible to buy a neck from, say, Warmoth with no frets. It would still have the fret slots, so they'd have to be filled. What could they be filled with, and how?

[Jon]

I personally think wood veneers look the best over other fillers for fret slots. Maple would be a good contrast for darker colored fingerboards. Wenge would be a good contrast for lighter colored fingerboards.

[the telecaster kid]

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing with the bass I'm making. I got a stewmac slotted rosewood fretboard, and I'm going to put maple veneers in the slots. I think it'll look good.

[WezV]

veneer is definately better than using any kind of filler

You can do what skelf does (and i copied) which is use a veneer thats almost the same colour as the fretboard so you can see the lines but an audience cant!!

[Jonathon]

I think it would be awesome, as I think other have said, to have a different wood where the frets would be, but flat to the board so you have fret markers but get the fretless sound. I don't mean, though, that you need the fret markers, more that it would be cool, especially when others see it up close.