[ashesofthesummer]

hey guys. i dont play slide guitar as of now but i want to get into it. if you could answere some of my questions thad be awsome. firstly, i know the old lap slides, such as the weissenborn, didnt have frets. what would be the advantages/disadvantages of a fretless neck. second, im looking to order a new guitar from the taylor custom shop soon. what i want to buy is a grand concert taylor with an all koa body, and a 1 7/8ths inch neck,plus some other stuff that has no relevance to the topic. would i be able to use this guitar for lap slideing as well as regular slideing. and would the frets get in the way at all? i want the guitar primarily for fingerpicking, but would also like to use if for sliding because of the koa body, and when im dropping a couple grand for it, might as well get as much use as possible out of it. so any other comments or advice you could give would be much appreciated. thanks.

[BlindRalphJr]

There is slide guitar bottleneck style and there is steel guitar. Two separate things. For bottleneck you fret some of the notes and use the slide on some of the other notes.

A Weisssenborn is a downright steel. Meaning all the left hand does is use the steel bar, hence the name "steel guitar" You'll notiice the strings are extremely high above the "fingerboard" , much too high to fret any notes

With this style the frets are a formality, they may as well be painted on.