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- Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:11 am
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Shortest reasonable scale length for travel guitar?
- Replies: 17
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Re: Shortest reasonable scale length for travel guitar?
I pulled the same trick as Jaime, using a pre-slotted 25" scale board but only cut down 4 frets... ended up with a 20 fret board and scale length about 19.5" ish. Put a medium to heavy set of electric strings and the string feel is ok. This was for my young son rather than for traveling. W...
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: Solid-Body and Chambered or Semi-Solid Electric Guitars and Bass Guitars
- Topic: Mistakes made while building early guitars
- Replies: 59
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Re: Mistakes made while building early guitars
Knowing the mistakes would happen led me to try my first on a smaller scale to familiarize myself with the processes. Guitar #1: Short scale Lefty for my son... Designed it on CAD using spec from one hardtail bridge, then bought a different bridge with wider string spacing. Over chamfered and rounde...