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No real bass section here to speak of so I'm gonna have to ask this here, hope it's ok.

I'm thinking of (pretty much set on) pulling the frets from my jazz bass and turning it into a fretless bass. My issues are sealing it. One website said to just use tung oil on it to seal the fretboard and I should be able to use my roundwound strings on it. I say roundwound because one of my inspirations for doing this is Jaco of course, and his tone came from the roundwounds on a fretless fretboard, and while I don't play like Jaco, I'd love to get a tone similar to that. Anyone got suggestions?

What kind of fretboard wood?

it's rosewood

You dont have to use Tung oil on Rosewood. I use this, from : localhost/stuff is great, it dires hard, feels slick and is Made to be put on fretboards! This is ALL I use on Ebony and Rosewood!!! Its specially made for the application!

is there anything I could potentially get locally? would this be carried in hardware stores or hardware sections of wal-mart?

Doesn't pulling the frets weaken the neck? Just curious...

I think you should take it to a guy who does inlay work, and fill the fret slots with inlay material.

read about what Jaco did...

speed bumps...

According to Bill Milkowski抯 August ?84 Guitar Player cover story, the ?62 Jazz was already fretless when Jaco bought it in Florida for $90. Upon meeting Kaufman in 1978, Jaco told him he removed the frets himself with a butter knife and filled in the slots and missing fingerboard chunks with Plastic Wood, followed by several brushed-on coats of Petite抯 Poly-Poxy. Kaufman抯 first job for Jaco was to replace the peeling epoxy, which he did by using his own method of pouring on the epoxy in one treatment and shaping it with a rasp

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nice, well I pulled the frets and filled the slots already, waiting for that to dry, do a little sanding, then sealing...no chunks to speak of so I guess I did an alright job. I'll try to get pics of the finished product!

can you do that with a guitar?

you could probably never play rhythm again, but sure. folks have

slade

I suppose you could use linsed oil on the board? Tung oil may be OK.

I think I'm just going to go with flatwound strings and linseed/lemon oil