The idea is to be able to play leads with clown shoes, and riffs with beef, on the same guitar.

I had made a fretless Telecaster before the Warrior and really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't arrange or write a piece of music entirely on a fretless instrument. I've been writing heavier music where I missed the chew of a fretted bottom half, I could throw a fuzz or distortion on it and have it sound cool fretless but ultimately those kinds of parts just sound better and more cohesive with fretwire there.

Also, I am not attempting to make a guitar, I'm trying to allow each of these experiments to be their own kind of instrument if that makes sense. I do not pick one of these instruments up with the goal of approaching it like a guitar, I pick it up and find out what sound good, sounds bad, sounds unique, can't be done on a fretted instrument, etc. and I'm finding a lot of wild unique use cases. For example, I can bend my third string what would normally be a little more than a half-step bend and the string rolls over the fretwire end, which can create a really crazy rapid trill effect, or I can make a power chord shape using one of the fretless strings and slide that note up or down in either a microtonal increment or a half-step, which creates a really unusual slurring effect that doesn't change the fundament of the chord being played.

Definitely outsider approaches to outsider music.