SlapbassSteve Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Hi all. It's just gone 1am, and I'm looking over at my six string bass that I've recently tried(unsuccessfully) to sell. It was £120-ish new, and it failed to sell after a few weeks at £60 so it's not worth selling, however I'm not using it any more. I've been listening to a lot of Pino Palladino/John Giblin/Tony Levin lately and have always been a fan of Les Claypool's fretless playing so I'm thinking it might be worth defretting and stripping back the finish to the natural wood underneath. Would be a fun little project over the summer months to distract me from my more serious undertaking, a pair of franken-Hondo II's which I cannot discuss further on here without incurring legal action... Anyway, I've done two previous defrets so I've got a pretty good idea what to do, however there are a couple of points I was wondering about- -what tape is best to mask the neck with when removing frets/installing laquer? -what is the best way to strip back a finish, presumably just sand it with progressively thinner paper? Will update as I progress, however it currently looks like this- [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb600tbk_6string_ebass.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb600tbk_6string_ebass.htm[/url] Will sort out a photobucket account or something for my next post so I can get some decent sized pics on here as it progresses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismuzz Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 These are nice basses, kind of glad you're not selling it or I might've been tempted! Be really interesting to see how this develops, have fun with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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