How To Defret a Bass Guitar
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How To Defret A Bass Guitar
There is some information about Defretting a bass guitar on the internet, but it is generally scattered and somewhat poorly presented.
Jaco Pastorius Fretless
Jaco Pastorius is widely known to have taken his Fender Jazz bass, popped the frets out, and filled the slots with some kind of putty or wood filler. The rest is the real history, because he went on tho become a legendary fretless player! His process is pretty simple, and does work, but is it the best way to defret a bass guitar? I'm not so sure it's the best...
Do Your Own Bass Defret
At bassdefret.com - we decided the best way to defret the bass was to place wood veneer into the slots to stabilize the fingerboard as the tension from the strings is applied. Read on for more details on the entire process...
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How Do I Remove The Frets?
The first thing we think about when we want to convert our bass guitar to a fretless is usually, "How do I take the frets out?"Other Things To Consider
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What Else Do I need To Defret My Bass?
Advice About Your Bass Defret Project
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Fretless Bass Guitars
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Removing the Frets
Kramer defret making progress
Project Bass Guitars to Defret
Rondo Music Project Bass Guitars
I'm constantly searching the Rondo Music website looking for the B-Stock guitars abd bassguitars for my projects! I've done a few projects with their items. One is a beautiful SX jazz bass, pictured here. I didn't defret this one, because I wanted a fretted maple-fingerboard jazz bass. So that's what I ended up with as my completed jazz bass project!
Link to Jazz Bass Project
This link is to the actual project article. You can see the before and after images here. The result was a players dream and I'm sure the new owner loves it as much as I loved doing the SX jazz bass guitar project build!
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- I keep wondering about which kind and how much varnish, schellac, laquer, to apply and how durable each will be...and ideas?
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