haha nice double post. I am Defretting my squier p-bass after i got a OLP MM2 and i have to say it was an easy operation. I used a soldering iron, wood filler, Epoxy coating, small screwdriver, and sandpaper (2 grains: medium and fine). The staining idea is cool but i prefer to see what im doing. The late master Jaco did the same thing that im doing but he used boat epoxy and he had a fender jazz.

Could you please try to fix the link on your defretting guide for it to become one page for saving? Because I am trying to defret a P-Bass, and I can do it in my woodshop class, so i would like to have the instructions in a printable format. Thank you.

Hey, I have just DeFretted my bass [Using this guide :thumb: ]. I am now at the stage of using Polyurethane. However, NoOne in my area has ever heard of it :confused: - Is there another, Similar product i could use?

Mikey.

[QUOTE=RMakaru]Could you please try to fix the link on your defretting guide for it to become one page for saving? Because I am trying to defret a P-Bass, and I can do it in my woodshop class, so i would like to have the instructions in a printable format. Thank you.[/QUOTE]


Sorry, im afraid I cant. A guy from MX uploaded it to his webspace (skynet or whatever it is) at least a year ago and I've no idea who he is now :p So I can't contact him to edit the page to sort it out. You could just try printing all the html pages out though...


^^^ Just try asking for a clear gloss suitable for wood.

Man, this is old school!! :D I was such a noob back when I wrote this (you can tell by the unprofessionalism of the website!)

i realise this is an old thread but i got questions. i want to defret my bass for using roundwounds on it, i want to defret my MAIN bass, even tho it's only like £300 but i got dimarzio ultra jazz in it and it's been with me for a lot of gigs so i want to get this right. Questions are :

Is there an epoxy i could use that sets slow enough but is good for getting a level finish? i'm in the uk so brand names would be great ,my mates have said that with a lot of epoxy's they don't always set rock solid due to bad mixing so something 100% would be good.

And how hard is epoxy? will it last forever or is there a risk ov grovves and the need to re-epoxy the fretboard??

Finally how can i test that the epoxy/laqeur/polyeurothane is level once it's on? this is obviously the vital part in the process so lumps and bumps would be ****.

Thanx for any advice posted.

Sorry,

this is not really an answer to your question nor an ordinary bump. But i realized a week ago I still had an account here and was surprised i still had that defretting guide put online on my account. Pretty neat. Anyways, i see you cant mail to users directly anymore (or I am looking at the wrong options) and I wondered if the author of this guide (Jamie) is still around here

Defretting Your Bass
 

I put round wounds on mine after finishing with poly... Sturdy finish, and heck, you can re-finish the fingerboard in an evening if you need to!

I worked up some pretty clear instructions and posted them on [URL]http://www.bassdefret.com[/URL]

Peace all,
Scotty

gtfo