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| Author: | jersey bluesdude [ March 21st, 2014, 4:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Fretless MIM Jazz Ebay |
Don't see too many of these http://www.ebay.com/itm/2004-FENDER-LEF ... 069wt_1026 |
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| Author: | Matt R. [ March 21st, 2014, 6:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fretless MIM Jazz Ebay |
I wonder if that was professionally de-fretted. Can't see from the far away pic of the fingerboard |
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| Author: | jersey bluesdude [ March 21st, 2014, 6:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fretless MIM Jazz Ebay |
Toward the bottom of the listing the seller has posted specs supposedly provided by Fender that lead you to believe this is a production fretless. |
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| Author: | Matt R. [ March 21st, 2014, 6:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fretless MIM Jazz Ebay |
Fender only did production fretless basses righty. This looks nice though |
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| Author: | crescenze [ March 21st, 2014, 8:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Fretless MIM Jazz Ebay |
A few years ago I bought a MIM Jazz like this that someone had started to convert to a fretless and put a number of gouges in in the rosewood trying. They gave up and I took a chance got it cheap. The neck wasn't usable in it's condition so I didn't have anything to loose. I knocked out the nut and took a belt sander with 40 grit paper an sanded the whole fret board equally as I could until the gouges were gone. The top part of the frets sanded off quickly and I left the rest in. I finished it off by hand block sanding it down to 220 grit. I held my breath put the nut back in and strung it up and tried it out. It played and sounded great no issues. Nice warm tone great action. Maybe I was just lucky. I later bought a fretless 78 Fender P bass and sold it. I almost never play a fretless so I didn't need two. |
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