Guitar players (and bass players used to playing fretted bass guitars) are used to placing their fingers just behind the frets. Without frets, you have to place the finger right on the spot where the intonation of the note should be or else it sounds off key.
biggest thing keeping me from trying a fretless guitar! i'm afraid i'd absolutely love it except that i'd keep playing very slightly out of pitch... i guess i'd either adjust quickly or find out i should never have gotten a fretless. thats what i'm afraid of though! sinking money into something i shouldn't have tried
I have actually seen a fretless bass (think the guy fram Racer X plays it) and it actually has painted stripes on the back of the neck where the frets would be.
I dabble in bass. And I have a fretless bass. IMO, playing fretless is a bit like handgun skills. Difficult to acquire and extremely perishable if you don't practice practice practice. If you sell all your other guitars, and woodshed for a while you can probably pull it off. But it's really tough to have a fretless as a fourth or fifth instrument that comes out of the case a couple times a year and it sound like anything good.
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