Rickenbacker for Funk? Strings?

[cassius987]

Very nice! I love the sound of the fretless - I've gotta get me one of those...

One nearly identical to mine just sold on eBay for $1200+. I was actually tempted to buy my bass's clone.

[cjj]

Very nice! I love the sound of the fretless - I've gotta get me one of those...

One nearly identical to mine just sold on eBay for $1200+. I was actually tempted to buy my bass's clone.

I'm kinda thinking a 4004Cii fretless would be pretty cool. I might have to get Paul W. to make a new fretboard to get one though...

[cassius987]

Well, you could just put strips of wood in the fret slots, and have lines like Jaco did. No shame in that.

[cjj]

Nah, it just wouldn't look right. A nice clear rosewood board (yeah, ebony would be even better) just can't be beat...

[cassius987]

Well, I'd look into cocobolo, pau ferro, and bubinga before you went straight to standard Indian rosewood. Played a wonderful Conklin fretless with a cocobolo board once... pau ferro is the celebrated stuff used on fretless Stingrays... and of course we know plenty about bubinga.

[cjj]

I said rosewood, but in the RIC sense, meaning bubinga. I'd really like to have a fretless twin to my Mapleglo 4004...

[cassius987]

I forget that it means different things to different people. In Fender/Gibson/everything else circles, it almost always means Indian rosewood.