Falbo 9 string build

[Hollowway]

Not to derail the thread or anything, but did that just happen? Cause that's news to me, especially considering I got an OAF a couple years ago.

Yeah, Tom’s not actively building, as best as I can tell right now. Brian is building again some, and I’m not 100% sure on Kevin. All 3 are great guys who never were into hype, but solid dudes who build amazing guitars that SHOULD get the hype they deserve. I haven’t played a Bowes (yet!) but I have played a lot of Tom’s and a few of Kevin’s, and they’re easily as good as anything else I have. Really nicely done, great fretwork, A nut that’s nice and low, etc. Frank is a good guy as well, and I haven’t played his instruments yet, but from what I can gather he’s got the same stuff going, so I’m pretty stoked to get this thing.

 

[r3tr0sp3ct1v3]

I had to. I should be, because I have no money for this stuff, and will have to sell some other things, but what the heck.

IF you have to sell that Drinkwater Raptor lmk

 

[frank falbo]

You know that feel when you get real comfy in bed and your feet are warm and you're happy and everything is right in the world? That's what this guitar makes me feel.

Ah man right in the feels.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

That's a new level of schmexy, are you going to go for some crazy tuning or something fairly standard?

 

[Pietjepieter]

Super cool! also like that is H-S.

looking forward to when it is finnisched!

I always tought the ONI was the only one doing those round freds.

 

[ThePIGI King]

Super cool! also like that is H-S.

looking forward to when it is finnisched!

I always tought the ONI was the only one doing those round freds.

Round Fred is always better than them square Freds'.

 

[frank falbo]

I spent some time talking to Daniel, he's a great person. What I did differently here, is to make the top 3 strings all 25.5". So they're straight until that point, for solos, and chords on the top 3/4/5/6 strings are much more normally spaced, and then the bigger stretches are focused on 7/8/9.

 

[Vyn]

I spent some time talking to Daniel, he's a great person. What I did differently here, is to make the top 3 strings all 25.5". So they're straight until that point, for solos, and chords on the top 3/4/5/6 strings are much more normally spaced, and then the bigger stretches are focused on 7/8/9.

How are the curved frets made, putting regular fret wire through a roller of some sort?

 

[spudmunkey]

I always tought the ONI was the only one doing those round frets.

Etherial, too, but...like...with no logical sense to it.

 

[frank falbo]

How are the curved frets made, putting regular fret wire through a roller of some sort?

I don't know how Daniel does it, I bent mine by hand.

 

[odibrom]

I don't know how Daniel does it, I bent mine by hand.

... but the slots are cut with CNC, right?...

Bending the "freds" sideways should work as bending to "match" the fingerboard's radius with those fret bending roller things/tools...

@spudmunkey I think the guitar panorama needs someone to take Etherial's design to a proper quality construction/conception. Some of his aesthetics and body designs are pretty cool tbh...

 

[Avedas]

Etherial, too, but...like...with no logical sense to it.

I played a couple of these last month and they were surprisingly not that terrible to play. Super light, the frets felt fine to play despite the nonsensical approach, and the concave neck was interesting but got old very quickly.

And then I sliced my finger open on the corner of the fretboard. Never again.

 

[Hollowway]

That's a new level of schmexy, are you going to go for some crazy tuning or something fairly standard?

Standard. So, C#1, F#, B, EADGBE. I am a mess with non-standard tunings. (Except drop tunings I will do.) What's cool about this is I can get my Van Halen (et. al.) on with those top frets being like a regular guitar, but then drop down for some chugs and djenty stuff.

 

[Pietjepieter]

I spent some time talking to Daniel, he's a great person. What I did differently here, is to make the top 3 strings all 25.5". So they're straight until that point, for solos, and chords on the top 3/4/5/6 strings are much more normally spaced, and then the bigger stretches are focused on 7/8/9.

interesting approach, to keep the top 3 strings straight!

but what the heck is wrong with that Etherial thing, is it like a fan with the parallel frets on the nut and then rounded?

 

[jephjacques]

I played a couple of these last month and they were surprisingly not that terrible to play. Super light, the frets felt fine to play despite the nonsensical approach, and the concave neck was interesting but got old very quickly.

And then I sliced my finger open on the corner of the fretboard. Never again.

lmao

 

[Lorcan Ward]

1st - 25.5"
2nd - 25.5"
3rd - 25.5"
4th - 25.7"
5th - 26.0"
6th - 26.4"
7th - 26.9"
8th - 27.4"
9th - 28"

Would that be a good estimate of the fan?

 

[frank falbo]

25.500
25.500
25.513
25.611
25.818
26.127
26.571
27.178
28.000

 

[Hollowway]

Update: HS logo is done!

 

[Hollowway]

1st - 25.5"
2nd - 25.5"
3rd - 25.5"
4th - 25.7"
5th - 26.0"
6th - 26.4"
7th - 26.9"
8th - 27.4"
9th - 28"

Would that be a good estimate of the fan?

And my wife thinks metal musicians are dumb. Where else are you going to find guys doing math problems just for fun?

Lorcan, how did you estimate those? Fret find 2D? Or is there an e scale calculator you guys (Frank included) use for this sort of thing?

 

[Vyn]

And my wife thinks metal musicians are dumb. Where else are you going to find guys doing math problems just for fun?

Lorcan, how did you estimate those? Fret find 2D? Or is there an e scale calculator you guys (Frank included) use for this sort of thing?

I'm going to take a stab and guess that he measured the length of the high e on the screen then knowing that the high e is 25.5", divide 25.5" by the screen measurement to get a multiplier, then measure the other lengths and multiply them by the multiplier previously calculated.