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Kev77 wrote:My recent frettless project started with a 70-s factory Fretless neck too. There's a NZ site, music gift dot NZ , they bring in pretty decent bodies every now and then, worth keeping on eye on.
Music planet have speacials on pickups too

Now that is a thing of absolute beauty. Love it!

Kev77 wrote:My recent frettless project started with a 70-s factory Fretless neck too. There's a NZ site, music gift dot NZ , they bring in pretty decent bodies every now and then, worth keeping on eye on.
Music planet have speacials on pickups too

Thats a cracking body, that was a musicgift one? already finished?

Cheers ..Yeah, I think they're selling one just like it at the moment

Thats real nice Kev.

Not sure if I've posted this one, I too, have been getting into the fretless lately. Quite funny, my calluses are changing. I'm also using my fingers rather than a pick so it's been a bit of a learning curve. I like to think of it as, after a lifetime of motorboating (frets) I'm now learning to sail by wind and tide. It sure feels that way.

I can't do any of my solo stuff on it because the tone sounds too vague and chords are still a little too much of a crap shoot, but that just means I have to come up with stuff to do on the fretless as well.

That's tasty, how do you mic the toans?

Kev77 wrote:That's tasty, how do you mic the toans?

Oh, it has the usual piezo pickup. A very hot one, unfortunately, so it used to be more feedback than toans. And you can't really get a Feedback Buster for F holes, I think there's one guy making them but you have to send him a lot of info and I'm crap at measuring things. ("what could possibly go wrong?")

Anyway, Tod sold me a powered PA speaker after trying out all the amps in the shop and it sounds very reasonable now.

There's a notch knob as well, and with the presence and the bass/mid/treble stuff, it's pretty flexible.

cleaned up my old cash converters cheapie, new 3ply pick guard was white on black and looked funny, ashtray and a thumb rest

Black on black maple neck Precision style is always a great look. Nice one.

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cleaned up my old cash converters cheapie, new 3ply pick guard was white on black and looked funny, ashtray and a thumb rest

that does look smart!!!

Fretless Precision TM alert

foal30 wrote:Fretless Precision TM alert

Saw that. Looks very cool. Odd that it's a rosewood board with a skunk stripe on the neck. That's normally reserved for maple boards surely? IS that roundwound string marks on the neck?

smallface wrote:

foal30 wrote:Fretless Precision TM alert

Saw that. Looks very cool. Odd that it's a rosewood board with a skunk stripe on the neck. That's normally reserved for maple boards surely? IS that roundwound string marks on the neck?

I'm not 100% on it being a rosewood fingerboard
It could be a replacement
I suspect it does have string gouges in the finger board but if there is no lacquer top coat then shouldn't be too difficult a sand.

Otherwise it looks a very sparingly played legit genuine boomer

The big question is how can I win the auction and get it here without Mrs Foal knowing

I suppose I could sell a bass or two

There were ebony finger boards P fretless as well. Maple neck w/ skunk stripe.
Unless I've totally lost my marbles

Kev, your thoughts please. I'm thinking one of the three of us will end up with it