Fretted and fretless in one neck

[Steve A]

[url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6610558556587749772#"]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6610558556587749772#[/url]

[Musicman69]

Clever idea.. I wonder how it would perform in the long term!
Any idea on price or availability of these?
JD

[bigsmokebass]

from what i can remember from the first time i watched this, it was extended with info on it, were the idea came from, design but despite being clever i recall them having so many difficulties with it and with the company, that the bass became a one off.
i dont think it was the bass itself though, just the service of modifing the neck but looks and sounds ace.... might attempt to make my own someday =]

[BarnacleBob]

Did one of the headless graphitey mob not build a similair bass but it was a big circular knob at the headless end to operate the moving frets? Again I think it was one off.
Or have i done too many drugs?

BB

[Pete Academy]

Crackin' idea.

Doug Wilkes experimented with a half-fretted/half-fretless in the 80s, whereby the E and A string had frets and the D and G were fretless.

[GeeCee]

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='735789' date='Feb 5 2010, 03:10 AM']Did one of the headless graphitey mob not build a similair bass but it was a big circular knob at the headless end to operate the moving frets? Again I think it was one off.
Or have i done too many drugs?

BB[/quote]

I think you're thinking of Steinberger.

[Golchen]

Fantastic! I love it.

I thought of doing something exactly like that years ago, great to see that it works.

[kets]

[quote name='BarnacleBob' post='735789' date='Feb 5 2010, 08:10 AM']Did one of the headless graphitey mob not build a similair bass but it was a big circular knob at the headless end to operate the moving frets? Again I think it was one off.
Or have i done too many drugs?

BB[/quote]

Someone did something like that about 10 years ago I think, don't remember it being headless though. It was on a TV show and the guy demonstrated it similar to the video above.

[karlthebassist]

What?!?!? How??!

That's amazing!

I thought it was going to be one of these [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-9wY57AZIs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-9wY57AZIs[/url] Fretted/Less jobbies...