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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 11:48:18 GMT -6
OK I hope you all can help me out. I have been asked to build a 3/4 scale Bass cigar box guitar. How does one come up with the 3/4 scale?
Please know I am not good with numbers. So please don't give me come complex formula to fallow. From the nut to the bridge. How long is 3/4 scale?
I'm thinking fretless at this time. I would like to get started on this soon. So any help I would be really thankful for.
EB
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Post by antares on Mar 16, 2016 13:52:11 GMT -6
Eddie- this may sound daft, but a full size bass scale length is 34" right? So a quarter of that scale is 8.5" and therefore 34.0"-8.5" is 25.5" which is a scale length we readily recognise. But then again, fretless makes that all irrelevant?
The problem would be getting strings that will play at the correct pitch at such a reduced scale length.
I know I'm jumping to a conclusion here and potentially revealing a gross lack of knowledge to the wider world so what do you think?
e&oe...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 19:17:23 GMT -6
Well, it makes since to me. But like I said I'm not good with numbers. LOL... So if it's a 25.5" scale, and I decide to put frets on it. Would it work out the same as a Fender scale for a 6 string guitar?
This is all new to me... Never even made a bass guitar....
If I remember right on the bass strings, they do make some super lite strings for a bass guitar. My problem is finding a set with the black winding's on them. My customer has requested that kind of string.
Well, this will be a fun build. So many things I have not even thought of.
EB
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Mar 16, 2016 21:53:17 GMT -6
Eddie - maybe you could use a set of baritone guitar strings. DR makes black strings...bright green ones, too!
John
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Post by antares on Mar 17, 2016 4:31:31 GMT -6
A Fender scale fret job would work. It's (very nearly) the classic Pythagorean ratio whereby each fret space is a fixed ratio of the fretboard above the fret being measured. As I said- nearly!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 9:52:51 GMT -6
John, yes that just may be the ticket.
antares, hum.... I have not asked the customer yet if she wants frets or not. I'm thinking no frets. It would just make things easier for mu first bass cigar box. But I will have to see what she wants. Thin I'll go form there.
Thanks guys!
EB
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Post by antares on Mar 18, 2016 11:45:21 GMT -6
As I said, if it's fretless then the only real consideration is finding strings that tune up to the right pitch for the chosen scale length without feeling like rubber bands, and for fretless- no round wounds!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 12:01:27 GMT -6
Yes I was looking at putting on flat wound string.
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