Written By: Jac Harrison
Earlier this month I had the chance to see Guns n Roses, in
my opinion one of the greatest bands of all time, perform in sin city. The
show was amazing and full of great music. As a guitar nut I was more interested
in the guitars that the guys where using than the half naked dancers on stage.
One of the guitars that blew my mind was a double neck Vigier guitar that Ron
“Bumblefoot” Thal was using. This guitar was sick; it had a standard fretted
neck on the bottom and a fretless on top. Knowing that I would be in Philly for
the Bee 3 vintage guitar show in just a few days and that Vigier Guitar would
have a booth there I decided I needed to try one of their
fretless guitars.
At the Bee 3 show DJ Scully, from Vigier Guitars, let
me play the fretless for about an hour and I knew I needed to have it. But with
a price tag of $3,300 I also knew that it was not going to happen right now.
Since fretless is a unique beast I wanted to learn how to play it as well as a
fretted guitar before I put down that kind of cash. I did a little research
online and called Fred, (the head luthier at WD Music Products) to get his
advice on how I could make my own. To my surprise it was very simple. I needed
to remove the frets, backfill the gaps and sand with a radius block.
