Re: Fretless guitar built - ripped off the frets...

["Dennis Moser" <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

The discussion so far is revolving around using a new neck and putting either a plate of brass or bonding a sheet of brass to the new fingerboard. The idea being that the metal to metal of strings and fretboard should be a little different than other combinations.

As for glissandi and MIDI, I'm looking forward to exploring that deeper ... I do it now on my Godin, though not a lot.

He (the luthier) was meeting with some other lutheirs this past Sunday and was going to ask for their collective wisdom, so I hope to hear some new ideas in the next week or so.

Dennis

On 1/14/08, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

Wow - interesting, Dennis! What material are you looking into as "non-wood"?

I can see the point in using a brass nut if you're going for the
Fernandez sustainer later on, which is all electro-magnetic. Myself I
tried out the Fernandez but decided to use the electro-acoustic
Sustaniac C instead. Sure, it's more easy with the thing always built
into the guitar, but I kind of like how the mechanically vibrating
clamper feels when playing the instrument. And you can use it with
other guitars as well.

What's your plan with a MIDI pickup on fretless? How will you handle glissandi?

Per


On Jan 14, 2008 12:34 PM, Dennis Moser < sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL ...this Saturday, I spent the morning and early afternoon meeting with a
> luthier to start work on mine! I had removed the frets last year from my
> Fender Squier but had been unable to attend to the finishing of it. Right
> now, he is looking into installing a non-wood fingerboard, a brass nut, and
> permanently installing a GK-3 MIDI pickup. The stereo outs and Fernandez
> Sustainer install will come later.
>
> Looks like there continues to be a lot of interest in this approach to
> playing!
>
> Dennis
>
> On Jan 13, 2008 6:01 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com > wrote:
> > A while back we were discussing fretless guitar and someone asked me
> > for pictures of the one I mocked up from a normal telecaster. I've
> > finally got a bunch of pix showing this guitar:
> > http://picasaweb.google.com/perboysen/MyFretlessGuitar (be sure to get
> > the full URL into the browser's address line, if the list server
> > breaks the address). There's a listening link as well if anyone
> > wonders what that thing sounds like.
> >
> > --
> > Greetings from Sweden
> >
> > Per Boysen
> > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> > www.looproom.com (international)
> >
> >
>
>



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Per Boysen
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