I have been reading through a new book, "Bass Player presents The Fretless Bass." In a section on maintenance, luthier Rick Turner (Alembic, etc.) advocates using either Formby's Tung Oil finish or Birchwood Casey's Tru-Oil Sealer as a finish for fretless bass fingerboards - it's sort of an intermediate step between the plain old bore oil/beeswax-type moisture protection and the harder plasticized, superglue/epoxy/polyurethane finishes. Any experiences with this? I'm quite happy with the tone of D'Addario (flattish) Chromes strings on waxed pau ferro & ebony boards, but who wouldn't like a longer lasting fretboard....
In this book Turner has one decidedly wacky idea about setting your intonation depending on whether you play sharp or flat, rather than setting the intonation RIGHT and learning to PLAY the bugger in tune, so he may have just been in orbit that week.... :icon_scratch:
In this book Turner has one decidedly wacky idea about setting your intonation depending on whether you play sharp or flat, rather than setting the intonation RIGHT and learning to PLAY the bugger in tune, so he may have just been in orbit that week.... :icon_scratch: