Nice slickboard there... glad it's found a home. Someone else might remember; was this one of Val's basses? He was well before my time here, but it seems to fit the timeline and general artistic direction.
I think in some ways, fretlesses become very personal things, more so than say, an otherwise identical fretted counterpart. I realized that having two fretless Alembics was almost working against me on some level, and I parted with a beautiful Distillate fretless last year. It had no flaws at all, and the guy who bought it called me literally in tears having realized a dream of his when he got it. It was a superb instrument, but it simply could not compete with, or replace my Custom. Things worked out like they were supposed to.