lettsguitars

Drummer missing a stop? Never!
Never did Wings any harm.

Yea and you really dont wanna be spraying in your flat man. You could end up a bit dead.

Doesn't give any inclination as to what type of paint it is. If you are going to laquer it any way why bother buying other products when you can just use solid colour laquer in the first place. You will need a sealer/primer anyhow. If you want to do it on the cheap just get some nitro laquer from halfords or b&q.

Laquer is sprayed on, always. Super glue should be thin. Coating up until a thick gunky mess is acheived which is then sanded back without sanding through to the wood in various places (impossible). Epoxy is the best finish for fretless. Ebony is hard enough as it is. Any paint/laquer or varnish will not protect from string wear for very long and you would just end up having to strip it all off again within days of playing. Poly goes on pretty flat and just needs buffing but is not nice stuff as said above. Leave it as it is would be my first suggestion, epoxy being my second.

Singer sounds like she has a .5 of a second limit to single word lengths.

Looks cool enough. I like those wood tones to be honest. Love the fingerboard too.

The trouble would be with the height of the strings and as you say, intonation. There's no reason why it couldn't be done though. I was actually going to suggest the gut frets thing. That would be the best way to do it. I'm sure there are many materials you could experiment with.

Guitarbuild may be able to help although I can only see a strat neck on the website so maybe not. £100 Is possibly a bit low for a good new neck.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Bloody responsibilities!

Hell why not!

Finishing in the cold can lead to moisture getting trapped under the paint which causes blushing. Misty foggy, flat appearance. You can combat this by getting your work peice warmer than the environment. An oil radiator or similar heater which has no exposed element or dust inducing fan placed directly beneath the hanging guitar will combat this. Also warm the can up in a bowl of warm water first to improve the flow.

That finish is going to be nitrocellulose. Wash it off with cellulose thinners before you start. If you put any modern paints or fillers over it they will not last. The cellulose is designed to move with the wood and poly isn't. The new paint will crack. Remove the old finish and fill, prime and paint. Car filler would be fine but if the grain needs filling you should use a grain filler first.
My opinion is this. Leave it as it is. The marks are proof that the bass has lived and ost folk would say that it actually looks better that way, because it does.

Not the pope then?

Hope you enjoy the bass Gareth. I'm here if you need anything. JL

Yea they look great Xtof.
Although it is not too hard to figure out the french on his site he really should have an english version of the website.
Cool stuff though.

$13000? No wonder they're all smiling.

For sure.

I can sell you exacty the right amount of zebrano, thicknessed, sanded and ready to go. Pm me if you want.
J

I like Willis.

Pound shops is where it's at man. For that and super glue.

Lighter fluid. I get tired of saying lighter fluid but what the f***. Lighter fluid.

I also have a dead spot on my thumb where I cut through the nerve with a planer. WACCA WACCA

Ritter undeniably produce some of the nicest looking basses available. The finishes/colour schemes are what set them apart from the crowd. Although I do not believe any instruments justify those kind of price tags.

As above, not a knot. The flame comes from that particular area being more on the quarter than the rest of the neck. Fender use flatsawn maple which can be a little 'whippy'. A fret level should fix your fret buzz but I'm afraid there's very little you can do about the rest of the instrument

It's normal for a fretless nut to be cut almost all the way down to the fretboard. Looks ok. Leave it. Neck looks a little twisted which isn't a proble, just thought I'd mention it