Re: OT: Fretless Guitar

[tim echols <eekamouse67@yahoo.com>]

i have defretted and refinished several basses, and helped a friend defret 
an electric guitar one time.  very practical for playing the loony tunes 
theme.  tips that i saw during various projects that may help you:

--the easiest thing i found to fill the frets back in was flat toothpicks. 
 if you have a rosewood neck and don't want lines, dye them.  if you have 
a maple neck and you want lines, dye them.

--you can also make a mixture of superglue and sawdust (alder is 
recommended) to fill in the holes, depending on your expertise.

--we finished the neck of the guitar with superglue, which is actually 
self-leveling, and thus more forgiving in this regard than epoxy.  but 
epoxy is recommended--  it takes much longer to dry, though.  i'm not 
recommending you use superglue, just saying that it works.  you spread it 
on with a credit card (that you do not need again), make sure it is 
reasonably level, come back in an hour or two, and, well--  it is like 
epoxy, as it takes more than one coat, and you sand it down afterwards. 
just thought you might enjoy knowing that.


time


--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>
> Subject: OT: Fretless Guitar
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 5:34 PM
> Hello all,
> 
> I just realized I have a guitar equipped with sustainer
> pickups that
> I'm not likely to be playing much at all as is and
> something made me
> think I should pull the frets off to give it another
> life.  Its a
> Korean Kramer Strat copy if that matters.  I've found
> the unfretted
> site and it looks straightforward but I thought I might ask
> for any
> tips any of you might have before I go ahead with this
> (didn't you
> defret a guitar a while back Per?).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> and to have a
> form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause
> of all trouble.
> 
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> 
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