Can I take a regular electric bass guitar and turn it into a Fretlles bass guitar?

yes... but it's an extensive job (and one i would only attempt with a bolt-on neck that i can easily detach from the rest of the instrument)... it also helps if you've got access to woodworking tools also (mainly a planer and electric sander)...

first you have to rip the frets out of the neck while causing the least amount of damage to the surrounding fretboard (easier said than done depending on how dry the wood is and how well fastened / glued the frets are)

once that's done you want to sand out any nicks and bumps from the edges of the fret grooves... then you want to fill the gaps with wood filler... re-sand the neck so that it's smooth and FLAT (even a smooth bump will tweak your sound in the bad way)

once you're satisfied with the smoothness of the neck you have to apply some sort of finish or varnish to the fretboard and voila... fretless bass

personally i've done this with an electric guitar... it's still in peices at a friends house in another province... i'm very lazy...

these links seem a little more professional than my ramblings so they might help you out a little more...

http://www.mikelull.com/fretless%20c...onversion1.htm

http://bassland.net/howto1.htm

Oh Thanks
just wanted to know if that's possible
but, as much as I want to , i won't do it ..
~I just don't want my guitar to die ! ~

it's all good... i used a cheap guitar that i didn't really care about for my experiment... i do have a fretless bass also but it wasn't a conversion hehe

I think I better buy one ,
Dont know if this will happen but we'll see
Depands on when ill start playing ContraBass

yeah it's simplest to just buy one... that way you're also guaranteed some quality within the instrument...

Yeah, I defretted my Fender jazz one summer, and changed all the electronics around. It's tough, but easy as long as you take your time doing it. I went through all pan's steps and finished it off with a few super thin layers of boat epoxy so my roundwound strings wouldn't dig grooves into it. So much sanding... so much sanding... it was incredible.

Then I put in active EMG pickups and ran it at 18 volts... good fun.

then I sold it to some bastardly collector who doesn't even play it... what a waste..

Mmmmm... Contrabass.

One thing you can do is buy a second neck and swap them round.

Fretless is nice as it has a unique sound but I don't play my fretless much because it's not as good as my fretted, so I might buy a second neck for my fretted too.

just play electric standup if you're going for it...

yup, sure can, I helped my friend max, and it's not that big of a deal, not that hard. We did it in about 4 hours or so