I have not experienced this in over 30 years of playing fretless and the over a dozen fretless owned & hundreds of basses that have passed thru my hands.

Yo Brad,

I was taken aback when I read it on WikiHow, sounded hard to believe I've had mine maybe 3 years and it's never moved yet.

Cheers

Leroy

There is so much mis-information on the net we all have to be a bit skeptical.

I can't think of any logical reason why it would. I would like to know the reasoning behind this.

Dave

Not to point fingers or name names, but...

A certain website mentioned in a certain post on a
certain day is considered to be a wee tad less
than oh, "authoritative" on some certain subjects,
by certain persons, who have posted replies and
comments to it, as I have occasionally observed -
although your mileage may vary, certainly.

That said, I have heard rumors that one way to
repair overly warped necks is to do a fret job
with ones that have thicker tangs, kinda wedging a
bow into the neck, but this sounds like the stuff
urban legends are made of.

J

....but this sounds like the stuff
urban legends are made of.

That is the most sensible part of the complete
statement! :)

Mo

"repair overly warped necks is to do a fret job
with ones that have thicker tangs"

i know for a fact it does work. it's done to upbowed necks but it doesn't work on all necks.

but i've never heard it done on a fretless.

It's poppycock LeRoy.

Brad has nailed it. I haven't had as many
fretless basses as he's had, but my experience is
the same.

Fretting a warped fretless neck to nullify the
warp is a load of dribble too.

The only necks I have had warp are on an old
Ibanez SDGR 804 and an SX jazz - both fretted
necks!

Mo

"Poppycock"!!! Such strong language there :^D