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Instant fretless?


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2 minutes ago, fleabag said:

Interesting concept, but jeeeeeeeeeeez, what string height does one need to have on the fretted instrument to be able to slide that thing under them ?

 

 

Oh, I see. It kind of has its own nut built in so it raises the string height at the nut end to have enough clearance. So not something you can just pop in without loosening strings off and retuning. 

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I think the only truly credible fretted to fretless instant conversion is the Mikey Bass, which was out maybe 15 years ago or more. Very innovative.

And it really is instant, unlike the perspex flatter

 

Mikey website is gone so i assume they fell on stoney ground

 

 

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23 minutes ago, fleabag said:

I think the only truly credible fretted to fretless instant conversion is the Mikey Bass, which was out maybe 15 years ago or more. Very innovative.

And it really is instant, unlike the perspex flatter

 

Mikey website is gone so i assume they fell on stoney ground

 

 

Oh yes, I remember seeing this at the time. Cool invention. 

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Novatone Switchboards, anyone? They were around in the 1970s. There were issues - the amount of wood that had to be removed from the neck to fit them made the neck potentially weak and they were attached via magnets that lost adhesion after a while and made them prone to slipping out of position, for example. 

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