Roughly how much to make a bass fretless?

[1976fenderhead]

How much does it cost, roughly, to get someone who knows what they're doing to defret a bass (and can you recommend someone in London)?

I'm very interested in this [url="http://www.washburn.com/basses/acoustic-electric-series/#ab10"]AB10[/url], but I'd like it fretless, and that's a job I'd have to have done after I bought it because Washburn won't customise it. So basically, I'd like to know how much more money I'd have to put into this...?

[charic]

the bass gallery is the usual reccomendation.

[1976fenderhead]

[quote name='charic' post='537711' date='Jul 11 2009, 09:22 AM']the bass gallery is the usual reccomendation.[/quote]

Thanks. Yeah I'm hoping to go there this week as I'm starting to shop around for a fretless acoustic, or a fretless AND an acoustic, who knows 8-) I'll ask them...

[lemmywinks]

The Michael Kelly acoustics seem to get good reviews, fretless available as standard too.
I played a really nice Takamine fretless acoustic a while ago too, don't think that was too expensive (2nd hand)

[1976fenderhead]

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='537835' date='Jul 11 2009, 12:58 PM']The Michael Kelly acoustics seem to get good reviews, fretless available as standard too.
I played a really nice Takamine fretless acoustic a while ago too, don't think that was too expensive (2nd hand)[/quote]

Man that Michael Kelly's probably pretty good but it just looks so... gay! With all those folksy decorations and stuff... Still, if I go for the fretless as standard, one of the best options given the lack of choice :-(