Coating Yamaha TRB fretless board - anyone done it?

[BassAgent]

I love this beautiful Yamaha TRB I own:

And I play it a lot, with rounds (not planning on putting flats on it, no). I really want to preserve the fingerboard, just like I did with my fretless Jazz, and have it epoxied. I've never seen that done on a fretless TRB and have no idea what the difference is, soundwise. Has anyone epoxied their TRB?

 

[JoeEvans]

Did it make much difference to the sound when you epoxied the fingerboard on your jazz?

[BassAgent]

Well, it was 20 years ago so I don't really remember well but  what I do remember is that it got a lot more "mwaahhh" and a little bit less low end.

[JoeEvans]

Have you still got the jazz? I'd be interested to know how well the coating has stood up - I've read mixed reports, some people saying that it got scuffed quite quickly.

[BassAgent]

I do. It was done by a Dutch luthier and it's still in excellent condition

[BlueMoon]

I was thinking about doing the same thing but with a polyester coating (as I believe was standard on Pedulla Buzz fretless basses).

 

In the end I didn’t go for it and quite like the stock bass sound with Ground-wound strings.

[JoeEvans]

Two-part polyurethane yacht varnish is also incredibly hard-wearing and would be a lot easier to apply than epoxy - just prep, mask up the neck and do loads of coats, rubbing down with super-fine sandpaper in-between.

[BassAgent]

Ah yes that is true, but if I'd do it' I'd have a luthier do it for me