All rosewood Fretless

[dandegeit]

Does this bass exist? I bet it would be cool. I had a great time with a fretless on the weekend. Jst wondering what it would look like. I bet a real collector's item.

show me the pictures

 

[adouglas]

Gotta believe that rosewood would not be a good choice for a fretless fingerboard. It'd get chewed up really fast.

EBMM uses pau ferro for a very good reason.....

 

[bassmonkeee]

Rosewood is a perfectly good wood for a fretless fingerboard and has been used on countless fretless basses by countless manufacturers. I've got a bass with a Brazilian rosewood neck and fretboard that I've used for over 20 years. The wear is not appreciably different than the fretboard on my fretless Bongo.

Sure, I've had to have the fretboard dressed a couple of times in the last two decades, but any fretboard that sees roundwound strings will have to be dressed and planed at some point in it's life.

Anyone using roundwound strings on a pao ferro fretboard for a decade of use will need to have it dressed eventually, too.

 

[Duarte]

Rosewood is a perfectly good wood for a fretless fingerboard and has been used on countless fretless basses by countless manufacturers.

This is true, but also what adouglas said is true. I remember BP saying that none were made because rosewood simply isn't durable enough.

 

[bassmonkeee]

And, for Musicman's purposes/business model/scale of production, that may be the case. It's by no means an absolute in the instrument world.

As it stands, you certainly won't be seeing any factory rosewood necked Musicman fretlesses. I doubt they exist. I guess there is a slim chance that someone has defretted a BFR.

I'd show my Brazilian rosewood neck/fretboard, mahogany bodied early Curbow, but it's not a Musicman bass. It is wearing EB flats, and was recently serviced with Wonderwipes. Hmmm.....

 

[kylierider]

They make a LOT of upright board out of rosewood. Engelhardt is one of the big companys that does. I also had a fretless Ric back in the day that had one also. I like the ernie ball pao ferro boards. I have one on my 30th fretless and I must say is very nice.

Wasn't the board on Aussie Mark's early stingray rosewood?

 

[five7]

Make the bass out of pao ferro.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Wasn't the board on Aussie Mark's early stingray rosewood?

Yes, as they all were on fretless Stingrays for several years - before the switch to ebony and then to pao.