shoemaker27
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Hi, anybody could post the differences between the neck scales? 27'' or 25 1/2in a seven string guitar??
Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
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HateBreeder said:its 2 frets longer, basically ;p
If you put a capo on the 2nd fret of a 27" scale, its a 25.5" scale, if i remeber right.
Drew said:Intuiitively, that almost HAS to be wrong, but then again, you could say the same about the impossibility of folding a sheet of paper more than 7 times, regardless of size - it sounds absurd, but it's true. Hmm.
Edit - well, it's possible to have more than 60 frets on a guitar if you don't worry about properly intonating them - i.e, if you put a fret every quarter inch on a standard 25.5" neck, you'd have 102 frets, with no problems. Just, you couldn't play accurate pitches on it to save your life.![]()
Drew said:Nah, quarter step would give you the same problem - basically, the 24th fret is half as far away from the 12th as the 12th is from the nut. To exterpolate, each additional octave is half as long as the previous, then if you went to 36 frets (3 octaves), your third octave would find you squeezing 12 frets into the space normally reserved for 5, and if you went to 48, your last 12 frets would be forced to fit in the space that's usually your 12th-17th - only a few inches. You can see the problem.
Now, if you did an even distance (rather than a proportional one, which is needed to ensure proper intonation)between frets, there's no limit. Need 500 frets? simply have a fretboard a hair over 10 feet, and put a fret every quarter inch.![]()