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Title: Fretless with glossy fingerboard?
Post by: hb3 on July 14, 2006, 06:45:48 PM

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?

Title: Fretless with glossy fingerboard?
Post by: David Houck on July 14, 2006, 07:25:39 PM

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.

Title: Fretless with glossy fingerboard?
Post by: mica on July 14, 2006, 07:33:15 PM

We've made a few. The last one was in 2004. There's a picture of it on  this thread (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=4370).

Title: Fretless with glossy fingerboard?
Post by: David Houck on July 14, 2006, 07:43:59 PM

Ha!  I had forgotten about that thread!  I've been searching around and here (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=3153) is a previous thread on the subject of fretboard care.  Scroll down a little over halfway and read Mica's comments.

Title: Fretless with glossy fingerboard?
Post by: richbass939 on July 14, 2006, 08:26:35 PM

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