Fretted/Fretless bass

[Faithless]

Dunno, if ya already seen this, but...:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7c3OsZHNE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7c3OsZHNE...feature=related[/url]

[Jase]

Wouldn't mind a go on that myself

[BigRedX]

For those of you who missed the thread last time this bass was discussed it's from [url="http://www.mikeyguitar.com/index.asp"]Mikey Guitar[/url].

An interesting idea but I can't help thinking that the fretless conversion works the wrong way round. Instead of lowering the frets it should really raise the fingerboard otherwise the fretless action will be too high.

[Jase]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='136143' date='Feb 7 2008, 10:52 PM']For those of you who missed the thread last time this bass was discussed it's from [url="http://www.mikeyguitar.com/index.asp"]Mikey Guitar[/url].

An interesting idea but I can't help thinking that the fretless conversion works the wrong way round. Instead of lowering the frets it should really raise the fingerboard otherwise the fretless action will be too high.[/quote]


Good point, I see where you're coming from.

[tauzero]

[quote name='BigRedX' post='136143' date='Feb 7 2008, 10:52 PM']For those of you who missed the thread last time this bass was discussed it's from [url="http://www.mikeyguitar.com/index.asp"]Mikey Guitar[/url].

An interesting idea but I can't help thinking that the fretless conversion works the wrong way round. Instead of lowering the frets it should really raise the fingerboard otherwise the fretless action will be too high.[/quote]
Given the way that it works, by rotating the frets, I think that would be impossible. What might be feasible is to have cams to raise and lower the bridge and nut.