{"id":2916,"date":"2019-11-14T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2021-06-05T04:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:07:36","slug":"80-beater-bass-goes-fretless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"$80 beater bass goes fretless&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"More project basses came to visit me this week. <br><br>\n\nOne of my students needed a fretless for a musical production. I told him we could make one, since buying a new one was out of his budget. He brought in an $80 no-name \u201cbeater\u201d bass. <br><br>\n\nI showed him how to make the tool he needed to pull frets without damaging the board. Then I demoed how to pull a few frets without damaging the fingerboard, and then handed him the tools. He pulled frets and I started filling the empty fret slots. 45 minutes later&#8230;. <br><br>\n\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2917\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless3.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless3.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless3.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2918\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless2.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2919\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless.jpg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/fretless.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n\nFYI, Goodfilla is the bomb for filling those fret slots. <br><br>\n<p><!-- Default Statcounter code for Lady Bass Music\nhttp:\/\/www.ladybassmusic.net --><br><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\nvar sc_project=1496529;<br \/>\nvar sc_invisible=0;<br \/>\nvar sc_security=\"ec215b54\";<br \/>\nvar sc_https=1;<br \/>\nvar scJsHost = \"https:\/\/\";<br \/>\ndocument.write(\"<sc\"+\"ript type='text\/javascript' src='\" +\nscJsHost+\n\"statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js'><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More project basses came to visit me this week. One of my students needed a fretless for a musical production. I told him we could make one, since buying a new one was out of his budget. He brought in an $80 no-name \u201cbeater\u201d bass. I showed him how to make the tool he needed <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/?p=2916\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,204,252],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-diyfretless","tag-fretless","tag-fretlessbass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ladybassmusic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}