alembic1989 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Simple question. Can a fretted carbon fibre neck be defretted to make a fretless one, in the same way a wooden one can? Is it more difficult and expensive? Anyone done this already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Same process really, it’s the fingerboard material that matters. Normally this will be some sort of plastic resin which may allow the frets to be removed without the splintering you get with wood. However often the neck and fretboard will be coated together as one piece so it might crack the varnish/finish but I guess you get wooden necks like that too. Edit: may well be incorrect, stand to be corrected by our resident experts. I just recall talking to someone who had a carbon necked Vigier converted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikay Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 https://www.talkbass.com/threads/defretting-graphite-neck-tuning-into-lined-fretless.681329/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alembic1989 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 52 minutes ago, ikay said: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/defretting-graphite-neck-tuning-into-lined-fretless.681329/ Oh dear...just as I feared! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 13 minutes ago, alembic1989 said: Oh dear...just as I feared! ...and the opposite of what I thought!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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