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Re: frettage?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:01 pm
by alexa.
jwar wrote:I am probably among the few bass players I know that prefers more frets. I prefer 24 frets or more. I like it for solo stuff with a looper works great.
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D.o.S. wrote:It's 2015 and we're talking about frets?
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Re: frettage?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:20 pm
by Chankgeez
alexa. wrote:
D.o.S. wrote:It's 2015 and we're talking about frets?
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Not frets, frettage.

(... or frottage, if you're excane and jwar. :D )

Re: frettage?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:11 pm
by PeteeBee
I actually really want a guitar with less frets. I don't know where I could find one like that. I've never written anything that goes about the 15th, and it seems like it might be more comfortable if everything was closer in. Like maybe move the bridge back on the body closer to the end of guitar and just remove several inches of neck. If this already exists I want it.

Re: frettage?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:52 pm
by Gone Fission
PeteeBee wrote:I actually really want a guitar with less frets. I don't know where I could find one like that. I've never written anything that goes about the 15th, and it seems like it might be more comfortable if everything was closer in. Like maybe move the bridge back on the body closer to the end of guitar and just remove several inches of neck. If this already exists I want it.
19 frets but no cutaway, so practically speaking, what, 15?
http://theloar.com/products/archtop-gui ... p-lh-301-t

Re: frettage?

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:00 pm
by PeteeBee
Gone Fission wrote: 19 frets but no cutaway, so practically speaking, what, 15?
http://theloar.com/products/archtop-gui ... p-lh-301-t
That things pretty rad. I had an epiphone dot for a few years and could never gel with it at all. I'm trying to not let that turn me off from big ol' semi hollow guitars, but it did a little. maybe trying out another is just what I need... :yay:

Re: frettage?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:44 am
by rfurtkamp
21/22, but in a perfect world, every single guitar would have "the Mustang fret", which any long-time abuser of the instrument knows you can make fun whale sounds on the pickup cover of the Mustang's neck pickup reliably!

Re: frettage?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:50 am
by Iommic Pope
I only use like, open, 6 and 13.
So, 2 frets, 24 3/4 inch scale.

Re: frettage?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:05 am
by kbit
rfurtkamp wrote:21/22, but in a perfect world, every single guitar would have "the Mustang fret", which any long-time abuser of the instrument knows you can make fun whale sounds on the pickup cover of the Mustang's neck pickup reliably!
Hell yeah

Re: frettage?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:37 am
by alexa.
Chankgeez wrote:
alexa. wrote:
D.o.S. wrote:It's 2015 and we're talking about frets?
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Not frets, frettage.
(... or frottage, if you're excane and jwar. :D )
Or Fromage if you're Disarm D'arcy :lol:

Re: frettage?

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:39 pm
by univalve
I lied. It is 21 where its at.