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hb3
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Username: hb3

Post Number: 115
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 6:45 pm:   Edit Post

Does anyone know if alembic has ever made a fretless with a glossy fingerboard, like a Pedulla buzz bass?

And...would they be willing to do so?
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4081
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 7:25 pm:   Edit Post

I'm guessing a glossy fingerboard would be a sealed fingerboard. I don't recall seeing an Alembic that had a fingerboard sealed at the shop. I do recall seeing an Alembic on Ebay whose owner had a local luthier seal the fingerboard.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3435
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 7:33 pm:   Edit Post

We've made a few. The last one was in 2004. There's a picture of it on this thread.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 4082
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 7:43 pm:   Edit Post

Ha! I had forgotten about that thread! I've been searching around and here is a previous thread on the subject of fretboard care. Scroll down a little over halfway and read Mica's comments.
richbass939
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Username: richbass939

Post Number: 668
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 8:26 pm:   Edit Post

There's a recent Bass Player article by bass tech Dan Erlewine in which he describes finishing the maple fingerboard of a P-bass with superglue after he pulled out the frets to make a fretless. I suppose he knows what he's doing but, personally, I like what the elves did with my Alembics just fine.
Rich

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