dmz Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 Here's one of my Laklands - started off life as a rosewood lined fretless 55-02 Got Martin at the Bass Gallery in London to put an unlined fretless birdseyemaple fingerboard on it. Fingerboard is coated in satin finished polyurethane - very hard and durable - fingerboard is 8mm thick instead of the more normal 5mm - nice and chunky ! My first ever fretless was a Maya P-bass copy which had an unlined maple fingerboard. Since I got rid of it I always hanckered after another fretless bass with a maple board........ Quote
wotnwhy Posted January 19, 2008 Posted January 19, 2008 oohh, thats a lovely bit of wood there! Quote
jwbassman Posted January 20, 2008 Posted January 20, 2008 Beautiful - I've often wondered about the practicality of a maple board on a fretless, quite fancy one... hmm Quote
dmz Posted January 22, 2008 Author Posted January 22, 2008 "What strings have you got on there? " Nickel roundwounds (Elites) - the coating on the fingerboard is pretty damned hard and shows no signs of scuffing - although I could be tempted to try half grounds just to try something different. Quote
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