Originally Posted by: PonyOneyou can take any regular electric bass and get it "de-fretted," meaning that they'll remove the frets and fill the spaces with a thin piece of metal that doesn't stick up at all and is flush against the fretboard. it's pretty cheap as i understand. there are also lots of basses available fretless from the factory.

I did that to my friend's bass, using an exacto, a screwdriver and some elbow grease. I probably should have eased up on the elbow grease, since the fretboard was really soft and chipped easily. Anyways, in spite of the chips, it sounded really cool. However, I'd always just end up playing the bass parts to "Hey You" by Pink FLoyd then get extremely bored.