How can I make 24 fret stratocaser without moving the neck pickup?

[HMstratocaster]

This is a question that has been baffling me about my next strat design. How can I make a stratocaster with 24 frets without any fretboard overhang that, doesn't move the neck pickup? Am I simply answering my own question? Does No overhang mean you don't have to move the neck pickup? Because I want that REAL STRAT neck pickup tone. I've read about the whole  7/8 size body and a 24 Fret  24 3/4" Scale thing but when you do that does it mean you don't have to move the pickup?


:rock-on:

-HM

 

[Nando Vallart]

Simple answer: There is no way...

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Baritone neck.  24 frets, and no pickup movement, but I'm sure that's not what you wanted.

 

[HMstratocaster]

Yeah I'm just looking for a six-string but I'm going to make a baritone in the future.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The baritone is a six string.

Think about it this way.  The 24th fret would be where the neck pickup is on a 21 or 22 fret neck.  Just look at a Strat or LP.  You want the fretboard there, but there is a pickup in the way.  One's gotta go, the pickup or the extra frets....or lengthen the scale.

 

[HMstratocaster]

I mean a regular six string**** sorry bout that!  :toothy11:


:rock-on:

-HM

 

[HMstratocaster]

Or lengthen the scale????!?!?!?!

 

[HMstratocaster]

Do you mean like, make the scale like 30????? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!!!!! But it just might work....



:rock-on:

-HM

 

[Nando Vallart]

Yes, we got it... You really can't (with an warmoth), because the place that the neck pickup will be is exactly in the 24th fret line... so...

(if you go custom you can make the 24th fret just alike the nut of the gibson, but you would not believe how hard is to do it correctly  :icon_thumright: and even then, it will not be 100%... soooo make a choice 24 frets or strat sound)

EDIT: an baritone neck will not sound as strat neighter... will sound different...

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Do you mean like, make the scale like 30????? THAT'S CRAZY TALK!!!!! But it just might work....



:rock-on:

-HM

No.  I meant like a baritone (28 5/8") conversion neck.  It's 24 fret and does not move the neck pickup.  I can't tell if you're joking or not.  You don't want a baritone neck, but a  30" scale guitar neck isn't out of the question?  Huh?

 

[HMstratocaster]

I was kidding but I was also being serious, I really want to be able to have that stratocaster neck pickup sound but still have 24 frets I'm not sure if I'd go with a baritone guitar though, I've played a few before but I never really understood the difference between baritone and a normal guitar....

:rock-on:

-HM
   

 

[Nando Vallart]

baritone is a bigger lengh than the usual in guitars... 28" and go on...
You won't get the two things together... the bigger lengh scale will sound different, the 24 frets will sound different than the "REAL STRAT SOUND"... but I believe the 24 fret will sound a little less than different than the bigger scale, and baritone guitars are tuned in B (like a seven strings without the small E)

 

[HMstratocaster]

That's what I thought.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

It's tuned lower.