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Medium scale fretless build?


randythoades
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Hi guys, just thought I would pick some brains here. I have a seldom used home built pBass that I converted to use with Squier Tele bass neck which is medium scale. I like the medium scale neck, I have them on my MIJ Aria Pros, but I now have the fancy for something different. I play a lot of upright bass too and wanted to transfer some of the feel and freedom of an upright onto a fretless bass guitar.
My question is this... can I just put a replacement fretless J or P neck on the converted body? I have had to rout a slightly longer neck pocket and move the bridge by about 10mm to get the intonation of the medium scale neck, but the heel is the same size.

I figure that as the fretless neck I would buy would be unlined, the change in physical length between the 'frets' wouldn't matter, I would just get used to playing on a 33"ish neck and adjust intonation by sound alone.

Would this be right or am looking at this in a far too simplistic manner?
Thanks in advance Simon

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