This particular example is a one-off Micro-Frets Signature short-scale fretless bass made for an employee of the company in the early 1970s. Note the compensated nut in the above photos, an original Micro-Frets innovation from long before Earvana "re-invented" it and claimed it as theirs.
Currently listed on eBay with a possibly optimistic Buy It Now price of $1,750.
G L Wilson
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If you can't fine tune the strings from the bridge you can do it from the nut. The question is: does it change anything? It seems to be quite a "neat" bass anyway but reminding very much of "Cort" instruments...
ReplyDeleteMy local guitar tech (who has worked on thousands of guitars and basses) is also a bassist with a rock/blues band. He has TWO Micro-frets basses and he loves them.
ReplyDeleteI forgot something important: Microfrets fretless!!!
ReplyDeleteFrets so micro they don't exist.
ReplyDeleteBought my stage 2 longscale bass in around 1990 for $199! Greatest bass ever!
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