Ken!!! You're right, what was I thinking!  Good to hear from you!

I guess I'm weird, I tend to anchor with my pinky finger! On my SCSD it is on the bridge, which required me to polish it after every gig, but on my new Europa I find myself resting it on the bridge pickup. Like Wolf, I tend to pluck close to the bridge because I play pretty hard & get a much cleaner sound there.

That's interesting Rusty - I used to pluck really hard too, both fingers and with pick. Lately I've been trying to dial it back and let the amp do more of the work.

I'm working on playing with a lighter touch too.

Hammer ons with the fingering hand and a light touch with the plucking hand helps me quite a bit. Heavy pressure on the fingering hand and also  systematically fingering directly behind the frets reducing fret rattle.  I make my fingering hand work hard  . All of the above has helped my fretless  playing imensely and  building muscle memory as well .

I'm finding that the Series II exposes my sloppy playing even more than my SCSD, so I'm working on my fingering finesse even more!

Here is a picture of my thumb rest on my fretless (lined) bass.
 
I can rest my thumb anywhere!  :-D
 
 

wow, why getting a rest if you can take an entire vacation!?!?
 
(Message edited by mario farufyno on January 13, 2015)

pauldo - love it! I used to think about thumb rests like that - 20 years ago I loved David King's design - the body was carved so that there was a thumb rest all the way from the bridge to the neck. Pedulla had something similar to yours I believe too?

Harry,
Thanks!
I never saw a David King before, that is a cool design.
I grabbed some scrap brass rails from work one day and pieced it together.  
 
That fretless was a 'Frankenstein Bass' from birth so adding widgets and rails was a no brainer, , ,  especially with the ability of taking an entire vacation on it!  
 
LoL Mario!
:-D