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The nail polish remover is simply acetone. As the nail polish remover hasn't harm the finish, then buy acetone which is way far cheaper and purer, so you can finish the job. I've done this on some aerosol paint weirdos work and it's been working fine. All you'll need to do is a bit of polishing afterwards. If you go the acetone road, first try on a hidden surface and second work outside because of the vapours...

I also have Bill Evans partition. 😉

I'll stick to my first choice. Now I need to practice, so I won't need to read and could follow the leader without thinking "Where the hell is he going"...

Thanks @Reggaebass. I know that wax accepts only wax, but the wax has gone through the other side of the planks over the years, so it's impossible to sand it. I have an old recipe with turpentine to make a varnish for waxed wood, but I sure it will never dry, according to that kind of varnish that my grandmother used for windows and tablets in our now house : not dry yet after more than 50 years.

THAT is absolute sense of humour. The little Dani has none, that said.

So my guess was good, it's written music. That said, I've been to lots of modern composers concerts, mainly influenced by Pierre Boulez, and some were harder to listen to than this.

And congratulations for your risky work.

Does this finish harden after the 12 hours or even better after a few weeks ? It's not for a fretboard, but my wooden floors. There is 200 to 400 years of wax in them (our house is very old and already represented on the oldest map of 1604), so we have to put wax every year and give them a good shine. If I could find some wax friendly "varnish", I would be more than happy. Maybe a very light stain could do the job.

It's indeed a Real Book pick, I was simply turning the pages, and pick the 3 ones that seemed right for an audition, knowing that it's not a "premier prix" that I'm preparing. I'll take another look at the Real Book and maybe change my choices, but I'll be playing Take Five for sure, one Miles Davis (So What was my first pick) and one walking bass ballad.

Sure, I want. The problem is that I have to choose 3 jazz standards. I think that The Girl from Ipanema could be a very interesting bossa ballad to play... And I really love that tune, even more than Desafinado.

I don't like it, I love it as a whole. Those handpans aka hang drums are a wonderful invention, and using a jew's harp this way is also wonderful as the bansuri and the fretless. Thanks Tony.

No, they make fret lines for fretless : http://www.luminlay.com/shopen.html

I ended up watching the first opus. The double bass player seems to know what he is doing, he is holding his German bow the right way and playing each note in tune, must have learnt music at some time. The yelling guy reminds me of this :

I had to stop as my cat was wondering what kind of bird was in !?! 🤣

Didn't know the Marco basses. That said have you been to that scary outside 300 meters dive glass elevator and try the unscary "monte sledge" ? And what about that plane landing or take-off on one of the shortest runaway (well bearing it's name) in the world ? Nice and quiet place to be, loved it when I was there for a week seminar.

And similar first name, Tony. As an avant-goût, you can check the noise we were making some 16 years ago : http://users.skynet.be/sb134986/index.htm It's also a fretless album in fact, even if some tracks should have been discarded (to my ears), recorded in one take except the last title Stabushu Raga. How did you know about my (one day) forthcoming (maybe) album (when I can put all those riffs, licks, phrases and ideas together to be part of an entire raga) ? 😉

As said above, great mixture here, but the value of the whole exceeds the value of the bass, think about it before going on. To me, if you want to do the solo thing, tune it E to C and add a D-tuner to extend the low end.

As already written, don't forget "our" Jesús Rico Pérez with the fantastic album called Scars II: Solo Fretless Bass

Delightful !

Try this for setting your pickup(s) height, as I wrote in an EMG topic : Put some new foam under the pickups and you can raise passive pickups as close as 2,5 mm under the strings, but do this when fretting the string at the last fret on E and G strings for both pickups checking each side after moving the other end. For EMG pickups, just do the same and you can even get (close) to 1 mm using the same procedure. Use an Allen wrench to take measures.