Re: OT fretless

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 31 aug 2007, at 02.15, samba - wrote:

>  If you're going to fill I think it's far better to use woodglue  
> mixed with saw dust than plastic wood filler stuff that's hard to  
> remove. It's better to glue wood with stuff that has the same  
> density /flexibility characteristics as the wood.


I think the same. So I used a tube of... "Virtual Wood" or something  
similar. The only reason for filling up would be to prevent the neck  
to change due to less tension from the strings since a fretless  
guitar has much lower string action. In my case I changed the strings  
for much thicker ones so I guess that should compensate for the  
change in tension. So actually I might not have needed to fill in  
those slots but I did anyway just because I was curious. The de- 
fretted Telecaster is still working fine a couple of months after the  
surgery.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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