“They’re awful, ‘never should have occurred in nature’ kind of things… It was unplayable”: Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal remembers his radical mad scientist fretless guitar experiments

Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal.

The eternally experimental shredder Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal has revealed the extreme measures he went to in order to build a fretless guitar, before an established specialist came to his rescue.

The former Guns N' Roses guitarist, who is currently in supergroup Whom Gods Destroy, is well known for his oddball double-neck signature guitar, which combines a standard electric six-string with a fretless companion. But his early attempts at going fret-free went drastically wrong.