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Old 05-20-2011, 11:33 AM
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Are the side dots on your fretless basses in the same position as your fretted ones?
A friend of mine has found a fretless 6 and wants to send it in to be fretted up

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Old 05-20-2011, 11:40 AM
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Are the side dots on your fretless basses in the same position as your fretted ones?
A friend of mine has found a fretless 6 and wants to send it in to be fretted up

cheers
No. Side dots on the fretless are located at the fret-line, not in-between as on a fretted bass.
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Old 05-20-2011, 12:04 PM
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Old 05-20-2011, 12:36 PM
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Exclamation well..

We make the fretless in 2 ways.

If slotted with lines, we put the dot in the middle between lines like between frets on a fretted bass.

If not slotted, blank board, then we put them ON the fret line, not between them.

Fretless boards are usually made thicker then fretted boards to make up for the height it would have 'with' frets for the bridge height.

We slot the boards on a gang saw 'before' the board is glued to the neck during the building process.

Slotting a neck thru bass 'after' it has been made fretless is very difficult to do without damaging the bass, mainly the body area. Also, accuracy will be nearly impossible.

We would prefer to take off that board and replace it with a newly made slotted board which would involve refinishing the bass as well.

If you want to take it to some shop in your area to have it fretted, I wish you the best, you will need it!
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Old 05-20-2011, 12:43 PM
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Yep, should've included that distinction. Mine is a blank fretless fretboard, thus, side dots are at the fret-line.
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no will let him know, don't want to ruin it, leave it as a fretless

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Old 05-20-2011, 01:14 PM
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....leave it as a fretless

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Sounds like a good plan to me.
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Are the side dots on your fretless basses in the same position as your fretted ones?
A friend of mine has found a fretless 6 and wants to send it in to be fretted up

cheers

As a devoted fretless lover, let me emphatically ask that you PLEASE not mangle a perfectly good fretless by putting frets on it.. There is an overabundance of fretted bases out there to choose from.
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Old 05-23-2011, 05:09 PM
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As a devoted fretless lover, let me emphatically ask that you PLEASE not mangle a perfectly good fretless by putting frets on it.. There is an overabundance of fretted bases out there to choose from.
So Bob, would that be sort of like Bronzing a Gold Medal?
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You could put it that way!
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