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Project Bass Guitars
If you have an extra bass guitar available to defret for your project bass defret, let's get started! If not, then you'll need one...
NEW Project Bass GuitarsOne serious consideration for doing a fretless conversion is, "Where do I get a bass guitar for a project like this? Of course if you already have an inexpensive bass laying around with worn out frets, then you're good to go! If not, you can look around in pawn shops, or find a used bass guitar in a classified section of the news paper, on eBay, or possibly on craigslist.com in your area. I have recently purchased a B-Stock bass guitar (Jazz bass instrument) from Rondo Music. This bass guitar was listed with two individual issues:
The first issue turned out to be quite true, and there was literally no way to repair the pick guard due to the nature of the peeling, and because there was some broken pearl material. Not salvagable. The second issue I couldn't detect, even with extremely close-up scrutiny of the entire bass guitar body. Project Bass Guitars at Rondo MusicHere are some of Rondo Music bass guitars (click the pic for more detail):
There are very many other bass guitar body colours to choose from, and the price range goes higher with the build quality and hardware... Since that is true ov every other guitar maker, I think it has no bearing on the reputation or reliability of the musical instrument manufacturer and company. With that said, I purchased the following bass guitar for a grand total of $130 including shipping. I added a couple of things to the order to complete my project, an SX bass neck needing a nut slot cut, and a black jazz bass pickguard with the single-coil pickup rout. Total with shipping: $173.34 Here's the bass I received from Rondo Music:
Click on any of the pics to visit the Rondo Music Bass Guitar pages. They have NEW bass guitars for under $100 and they are very good quality bass guitars, too. The electronics are cheap, and the machine heads (tuners) are somewhat less than, but the things that REALLY MATTER are simply amazing quality. The Ash body I received is a solid 3-piece natural matte finish. I love the resonance of this body! Can't wait until I have the project finished:
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