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by Richard Turner
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
Views: 18588

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...
by Richard Turner
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
Views: 80691

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...

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