RE: Question about fretless guitar(slightly OT)

["Dean, Hal " <HDean@wcupa.edu>]

I'm no expert... see http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=main. But
briefly: sounds like this guitar was born fretless, so the advice that
some folks deliver about detuning may not apply... but FWIW, some
recommend for a defretted guitar (like the Casio Strat-style MG500 I
defretted) that it be tuned down at least a whole step, because taking
out the frets reduces the stiffness of the neck somewhat. That is
probably mitigated with epoxy filler, but I used wood filler and detune
from standard by W.

I did not epoxy, but I did apply three coats polyurethane. With a
modicum of care and sanding, the resulting neck is very slick, sans any
squeak from finger glides.  

Hal Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Kupferschmid [mailto:apparitionapparition@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:56 PM
To: loopers delight
Subject: Question about fretless guitar(slightly OT)


I recently rediscovered a guitar I had that had a
fretless neck on it.  I forgot about it a long time
ago, and decided to fiddle with it.  I remember
someone on here recently played fretless guitar, what
I'm curious to know is, what your set up for the
guitar is(string guages, action, tuning, etc.).  For
now, I have a extra heavy guage set(think of a seven
string set without the high E) and I have it tuned
CGCFAD.  I would rather go back to standard tuning,
but I'm not sure if I should use my typical gauge of
string(a set of 10s) or go heavier for the sake of
sustain.  Also I was thinking about putting epoxy on
the fretboard and leveling/sanding it.
Recommendations? 


       
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