NGD! Skervesen Raptor FF7!

[feilong29]

What is so special about having fanned frets besides the fact that you have extra tension pn your lower strings?

The frets follow the natural motion of your arm/hand; it seems it isn't natural to go straight up and down the frets with your fingers. With fanned frets, you sorta 'pivot' with your elbow towards the higher frets and the 'fan' follows that trajectory I guess you can say!

 

[TIBrent]

Love the top on that axe, looks almost bleached. The individual bridge pieces really look amazing on it too.

 

[technomancer]

I'm not normally a spalt fan but that looks awesome

 

[jahosy]

What a beaut! Was really contemplating a fanned fret for my skervesen 7 string built but thought it'll be too intimidating

Sounds like you adapted it really well! And again HNGD!

 

[Timelesseer]

Awesome guitar man! Looks incredible.

 

[stratjacket]

Wow, very cool indeed. Makes me look forward to my Raptor build that's coming. Congrats on an awesome guitar.

 

[rifft]

Thanks guys! The top is a tad more brown in reality and looks sick

Wow, very cool indeed. Makes me look forward to my Raptor build that's coming. Congrats on an awesome guitar.

Sweet! Make sure to post pics, you're going to love that guitar

 

[DarkNe0]

Amazing guitar! One of the most beautiful guitars I've seen around here. HNGD!

Sorry for asking, but what's the price range of these customs? Thanks

 

[patdavidseven]

love the look of the spalted maple, stunning grats buddy!

 

[Amanita]

What is so special about having fanned frets besides the fact that you have extra tension pn your lower strings?

i'd like to elaborate a bit
multi-scale affects 2 aspects of an instrument.
first aspect is intonation. by intonation i mean inharmonicity of strings. a mathematically perfect string should have infinite length, infinite tension and 0 diameter. in practice putting thick strings on a standard scale instrument may lead to a situation where string is "out of tune" with itself. in extreme cases one can hear harmonics beating against fundamental when playing a single note on an open string. increasing instruments scale even by half an inch improves matters noticeably. it also means that tension is increased while string's diameter stays the same (which helps) or that a thinner string can be used for the same tension (which also helps).
longer strings also tends to produce more harmonic content which helps definition of low notes.
which leads us to downside of uniform increasing of scale. treble strings tend to sound brittle and piercing. also if tension is increased string's "bendability" is affected negatively.
so it makes sense to increase scale only on a bass side

the other aspect is ergonomics. frets fan can decrease wrist strain as frets angle follows the sweeping motion of arm.
also fret distances are smaller on the side of a fretboard where people play more widdly notes

if anyone is inclined to delve deeper here's a good article about inharmonicity:
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~hjarvela/publications/icmc99.pdf

and here's a good read from the inventor of fanned frets himself:
Novax Guitars: Information: Technical Lecture

 

[redstone]

and here's a good read from the inventor of fanned frets himself:
Novax Guitars: Information: Technical Lecture

 

[Amanita]

good one. live and learn

 

[redstone]

Yup, the history of mankind is full of surprises and mysteries

 

[tmfrank]

Congrats man! I've been GAS'ing for a Skervesen forever, so this is only feeding those wants! HNGD!

 

[joebalaguer]

I really dig that top!

 

[guitarguyMT]

Holy crap! HNGD!!

 

[Konfyouzd]

Skervesen done done it again!

 

[Compton]

So rad! I cannot wait for my Skervesen. I need to stop torturing myself with look at everyone elses.

 

[RickSchneider]

If you are ever selling this, send me a PM instantly, this thing is everything I want in a guitar!

 

[MikeH]

Skervesen has been doing it right lately. Everything they put out is pure class.