Lyn #13 - MMB-4 (Fretless)

[gavinturner]

Awesome Rob! That FB looks amazing. It's so beautiful to see an onbroken piece of rosewood all the way down.

cheers,
Gav.

[Blueshound]

This is looking great Robin. I like the dust collection for future repair, great tip!

[robin]

Now for my two cents re: fibreglass resin.. Don't do it! It will gunk up your strings like crazy and may actually make the FB tacky to play..

Oh No!! Don't be telling me that Phil. Before I went down this road I researched the Pedulla Web site and they use Polyester Resin to coat their Fretless fingerboards. In the past I have repaired surfboards with the stuff and when it dries, it feels hard, dry and as tough as nails. I can't imagine it feeling tacky.

Are we talking about the same stuff?

I don't think that untreated Rosewood will stand up to the rigors of bass strings that well. I was intending to use flat wounds, as I think that the round wounds chew up the fb over time.

[robin]

Thanks Andy, Woks, Gav and Blues. Up close it still looks a bit rough, but as I was intending to coat it I hadn't given it the time to get a really good finish.

[dingobass]

Oh No!! Don't be telling me that Phil. Before I went down this road I researched the Pedulla Web site and they use Polyester Resin to coat their Fretless fingerboards. In the past I have repaired surfboards with the stuff and when it dries, it feels hard, dry and as tough as nails. I can't imagine it feeling tacky.

Are we talking about the same stuff?

I don't think that untreated Rosewood will stand up to the rigors of bass strings that well. I was intending to use flat wounds, as I think that the round wounds chew up the fb over time.

Well there ya go, I have learned something else from you Robin
I guess using flatties (always my choice of Bass strings for fretted and fretless Bass) won't give you any grief.
Can hardly wait to see this Bass finished.

[dingobass]

Awesome Rob! That FB looks amazing. It's so beautiful to see an onbroken piece of rosewood all the way down.

cheers,
Gav.

Not wrong there, Gav. It is a stunning chunk of tree, I very nearly kept it for my collection but I couldn't do that to our Robin

[FrankenWashie]

Some more of the fingerboard.

That FB is GORGEOUS Robin, I hope i can find something that pretty for my next project.

[robin]

@DB
Thanks DB for not hoarding that fb mate, I really appreciate it. I now just have to do it justice.

@FrankenWashie
I take no credit for that fingerboard, its all Dingobass. I just hope he has more in his stocks.

rob

[wazkelly]

I don't think that untreated Rosewood will stand up to the rigors of bass strings that well. I was intending to use flat wounds, as I think that the round wounds chew up the fb over time.

Hi Robin, the Yammy Fretless I owned about 30 years ago had a rosewood fret board and I was using rotosound round wounds at the time as I liked the brighter sound they produced. It was not my main axe and only used occasionally live for the odd song here and there. Used more whilst practising and mucking around. Over time round wounds will bite into any wood surface, particularly if you have an aggressive attack in your playing style however if more of a softer finger plucker you should still be ok.

On the fibre glass resin topic, definitely don't do it. Highly toxic and not worth the effort. Only finished Rosewood Fret Boards I have seen are on Rickenbackers but not sure what they use.

Reckon you would be best to use some of DB's Dingo Wax to retain the original earthy tone it will produce.

[dingobass]

Another alternative that I use quite often is to flood the board with thin CA glue.
Put one coat on, let it cure for a few hours then sand it back with 220 and go again.
The second coat then gets sanded right up to 2500 and then I give it a coat of wax.

Please do this outside though, the CA glue fumes will mess with your head.....