Category: Fretless Guitars
Converting an Acoustic Guitar to a Fretless Guitar
Introduction It’s been about 12 years since I wrote “Converting an electric guitar to a Fretless Guitar” for Unfretted and an update is long overdue. Removing frets and filling the s... Read More
Sponge Bo(b) Diddley Emmentaler double neck Fretted / Fretless Guitar
This beautifully crafted Double Neck Guitar from JESTE MAÏSTORNIK. We asked the creator about its history and the guy that commissioned it, Rambo Amadeus. In his own words….. About me My name i... Read More
Killick’s Fretless “Walrus” Guitar with Video
Killick’s Walrus guitar is both a fretless and a fretted guitar featuring exchangeable aluminium necks, one fretted, one fretless. Changing the necks takes less than ten minutes. Killick with th... Read More
Acoustic Fretless Harp Guitar – Jonathan Pickard
Well most of us will be familiar with Tim Donahue’s Fretless Harp Guitars but this is the first acoustic fretless harp guitar that we have seen. UK based Jonathan Pickard sent us pics and detai... Read More
David Vorhaus’ Kaleidophon, an early electronic Unfretted instrument
David Vorhaus has been involved in electronic music since the late sixties after meeting with and later working with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Classically t... Read More
Fretless Fibreglass Acoustic Guitar by Chadelz Petzer
Chadelz Petzer is from South Africa and has designed a fretless acoustic guitar that is made from carbon fibre in the same way that traditional guitars are made. The carbon fibre really helps with the... Read More
Making a Glass Capo for Fretless Guitar
The idea that you could use a Glass Capo on a Fretless Guitar has the ring of “Chocolate Teapot” about it. Yet Ned Evett made one and used it extensively on his “Glass Guitar (Vol 1)... Read More
Fretless Acoustic Guitar fitted with a Vo-96 Acoustic Synthesis device
Back in February 2014, Killick Hinds of Athens, Georgia, USA picked up his new Fretless Acoustic from the Vo Innovations factory. This was a Wes Lambe fretless guitar fitted with a Vo-96 Acoustic Synt... Read More