Hehe no, this is just me being batsh*t crazy and deciding that since no one makes 4 pole pups for the string spacing of the Adventure Time axe bass, I was going to have to make them myself. I'm also making a bridge for the same reason. A brass nut has started being formed. the strings and the tuners will be the only thing on this not bespoke.
After watching all 10 seasons of Adventure Time "for research purposes", I did not notice any physical frets in side profile. Now I know, it's from a cartoon...a very stylised cartoon, but....if they can manage to show that Marceline is ambidextrous by playing the bass both right and left handed, and flipping the side the controls are on. Given that attention to detail and she *is* a musician, she would not play an instrument that makes no sense. In addition her fingering suggests that perhaps the instrument is actually fretless, and the 13 frets are just markings.
So.. after I get the fretboard radiused I'll fill in the fret slots with black epoxy and it will be a fretless small scale bass.