A little Guthrie FRETLESS action

[Death by Uberschall]

[youtube=425,350]1PyOZhgQnvU[/youtube]

:headbang1:

 

[exaN]

Guthrie is just out of this world :guitaristgif:

This reminds me of some Michael Lee Firkins work

 

[baskruit]

Cool. That looks pretty neat. I wonder what that fretboard is made of?
But it doesn't sound all that different from a regular guitar.
On a fretted guitar you just bend the notes.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

I'm thinking it's a aluminum board.

 

[line6man]

Awesome!

I still really want to build a fretless Strat, but I can't afford anymore instruments. :sad:
I've been worried that it might not sound good, but this video gives me some hope. His tone sounds ok in this video.

I believe that's an aluminum board.
It doesn't quite look right to be glass, like Ned Evett's guitars, and it's definitely not a brass fingerboard.

 

[line6man]

I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't do any harmonic slides though. :dontknow:
I really want to see how well they ring out on a guitar.

 

[stubhead]

It's a Vigier guitar, and they advertise their proprietary "metal alloy" fingerboard. I've made a few fretless guitars in the conventional way (YANK) and I always found that the unwound strings had poor sustain. Some people advocate using your fingernails to get them to ring. I have another guitar all de-fretted that just needs some epoxy filling in the fret slots, but I want to figure out a bridge that lets me put five wound strings only on there. It doesn't need to be compensated, just curved to match the neck radius. It's a maple-bodied Aria Pro II. Like everything else guitar, these guys have their own religion, with websites, gurus, fetish objects etc.

http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=main

http://www.vigierguitars.com/

Govan is a monster, he's got a nice blurb in the March 2010 Premier Guitar mag.

 

[exaN]

http://www.unfretted.com/loader.php?LINK=main

There is a transition phase,
from guitar to fretless guitar.
Its like walking all your life on Earth
and then suddenly finding you can fly.
All the fixed points
you relied upon are gone,
you are;

U N F R E T T E D

Haha.. so poetic :icon_tongue: