The REAL Nordic God Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 I have finally started converting my old bass {really old} into something sick, ill put my plans up in a few days {MS paint sucks} but its a cross between an ESP a JEM and a P bass. should be sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 cool, i wanna hear more about this!!! post pics etc dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobbo Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 post pics etc dude! my thoughts exactly! nothing shows your skill via internet better than an old fashioned picture... or video lol. is it possible to make a fretless guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckguitarist Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 post pics etc dude! is it possible to make a fretless guitar? uh...why not? Actually I have seen a couple... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarMaestro Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 is it possible to make a fretless guitar? Making one is easy, as you do not have to do any fret work at all. Playing one is quite difficult I suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The REAL Nordic God Posted February 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 If any one knows where ican get a seymore duncan musicman pickup for cheap that'd be great and i also need 2 hot rods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The REAL Nordic God Posted February 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 Snork is turning his Oscar Schmidt into a fretless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snork Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 *tee hee* good stuff it tis' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 It is very hard to play a fretless. My teacher has both a Godin Glissentar fretless 10-String and a Tele with a neck that has the first five frets only. We refer to it as the "rhythm" guitar...no playing beyond the fifth fret. It's hard to intonate correctly and to press hard and "defined" enough with your fingers to get decent sound. Forget playing chords on the fretless. It is however interesting that you can use it to vary intonation slightly depending on your style, like intonate the b3 a little higher in the blues scale, stuff like that. Still, I don't feel inclined to play one for real. Different thing on bass for sure because you don't have to play chords that much... so long ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 It's hard to intonate correctly and to press hard and "defined" enough with your fingers to get decent sound... ...Different thing on bass for sure because you don't have to play chords that much.. i guess it depends on the bass player...i play chords all the time As far as pressing goes, well, i think you guitar players just need to toughen up a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 As far as pressing goes, well, i think you guitar players just need to toughen up a bit Amen to that! its a cross between an ESP a JEM and a P bass. Sounds kinda like one of Warmoth's Dinky P bodies sounds awesome, good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 It's hard to intonate correctly and to press hard and "defined" enough with your fingers to get decent sound... ...Different thing on bass for sure because you don't have to play chords that much.. i guess it depends on the bass player...i play chords all the time As far as pressing goes, well, i think you guitar players just need to toughen up a bit You play chords on the fretless bass? My respect...I hope your bandmates like it, too No really, with thin strings I find it harder to get a defined sound because you have more finger flesh dampening the string in relation to its thickness...if that's halfway understandable. No offense intended, but there IS a reason that you see way mor frettless basses than guitars so long ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fidgec94 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I read that when playing fretless bass its really easy to hit any note slightly flat or sharp. To remedy this, you add vibrato to almost every note to even it out. I guess that would go the same for guitar as well. Adding virbrato to chords is kinda difficult methinks. Unless of course you are THE DADDY and hit every note/chord spot on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The REAL Nordic God Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 what do you use to get paint off the body? Because i tried to sand it off and my friend tried with a power sander but there are like ten layers of paint, and want to get that wood cuz its a nice hunk of ash! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKGBass Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Use a heat gun, it takes it right off. Ace, I understand what you mean. No offense taken. You don't HAVE to put vibrato on anything. The main reason that vibrato is consistant of every note is because that is the way it is done on classical instruments (all fretless). You just have to play it enough to know where you want to land your notes. Sometimes its nice to intentioally pull something sharp or flat. And vibrato i can really only see as being really difficult on a few chords (any involving all 4 fingers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 my old fretless was bad ass. Chords rang true...I guess I knew how to pull em off. As far as the fretless guitar...G&L makes some now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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