New Fretless Build

[Peaty]

 

 

Hello Basschatters 

I had been looking for a fretless for a while and there have been several on the forum that I nearly went for but in the end decided to build one for myself. 

 

The plan is for a fretless four string, with a single Bartolini MMC pup coupled to an East filter preamp.

 

I used to do a few builds, some of which I posted on a previous incarnation of this site, but I haven't done one for ten years or so now so it will be interesting to see how much I remember. Anyhow the idea is to keep the budget down to the cost of what I was going to spend on buying a fretless so a notional budget of ca. £400. This will mostly go on parts as I have an unused mahogany body blank, maple neck blank and a wenge fretboard left over from when I last built a bass, although I will splash out on a nice walnut top for it.

 

Here is a pic of the last fretted bass I made, the plan is for the fretless to be the same shape and style if i can find the old template and hopefully source a similar grade walnut top.