gdgross
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I've got a fretless maple/rosewood guitar neck coming this week (warmoth) and a body waiting for it at home. Have been doing a bit of reading on the web about epoxy coating of fretless necks. Mostly of course on the bass discussion forums. Seems like many bass players, especially those who put round wounds on their fretless basses, seem to prefer the epoxy coating. But maybe that's just because Jaco did it...
Curious if anyone on here has an opinion one way or the other? My instinct tells me that even round wound guitar strings would chew up a fingerboard more slowly than round wound bass strings... I'm a little inclined to leave the fingerboard unfinished and see how I like it first.
I do like the thought of an epoxy coating increasing the sustain of a fretless guitar. I suppose string instruments don't have this problem since the string is constantly excited with the bow, and playing pizz is supposed to sound kind of plunky.
Anyway, anyone have experience or opinions about this?
Curious if anyone on here has an opinion one way or the other? My instinct tells me that even round wound guitar strings would chew up a fingerboard more slowly than round wound bass strings... I'm a little inclined to leave the fingerboard unfinished and see how I like it first.
I do like the thought of an epoxy coating increasing the sustain of a fretless guitar. I suppose string instruments don't have this problem since the string is constantly excited with the bow, and playing pizz is supposed to sound kind of plunky.
Anyway, anyone have experience or opinions about this?