Sami Ghouri Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Hi all! I was asked to make a yamaha bass fretless. Now i know that the general concept is to fill the gaps with lighter wood splints, but i am REALLY tight on time and I was thinking that some wood fillers get pretty hard so is it possible to fill the gaps with wood filler? (i was thinking elmer's wood filler) or is that just mindless blasphemy that i need to be punished for? is it gonna wear out easily with wood filler? if the whole idea is BS then should i go for hard woods only? coz i don't remember finding a maple piece anywhere around but i can get hold of basswood easily... any help is highly appreciated thanks! sami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 i did the wood filler thing to a bass when i was about 16. the problem is that you wont get clean lines. any chips or barb damage to the slot will become very noticable when the wood filler gets in it all you need is a bit of veneer - the lines will look much neater and the time the glue takes to dry is probably less than the wood filler will take to harden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Ross Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 WezV is right. I just defretted a Conklin with a purpleheart fingerboard and used cherry veneer glued with thin CA to fill the slots. I then sanded the whole thing down to a shine and applied epoxy, then sanded, then more epoxy, then sanded again. It turned out very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sami Ghouri Posted August 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 thanks a lot guys! two issues though, as dumb as it sounds, but i still have no clue what CA is! and i can't seem to find epoxy here so i guess i'll have to find something else to fill with (in case i can't make accurate splints or the barbed slots are too visible)...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Ross Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 CA is cyanoacrylate, or Super Glue. It comes in thin, medium or thick viscosities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 if you are glueing wooden veneer into a wooden fretboard then wood glue works surprisingly well. the CA or epoxy do work better if you have some fills to do or much damage to your slots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sami Ghouri Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 thanks a lot! i do have the stewmac medium viscosity superglue.... guess i can use that if the slots turn out really oogleh! Sami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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