NEW! Warmoth now to offer Fanned Fretboard neck option AND Full Scallop!"
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swarfrat
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I can neither confirm nor deny... because I don't know squat. But I could kinda sorta see someone getting a bug to do scallops on CNC and making them available across the board. I can't really see them doing fanned frets. How many other oddball things have popped up only to be told sorry jack, you and 3 other people are the only ones interested. And two of you ain't got no money.
The key to this question in all its various forms is basically 1) How many could we sell? 2) What kind of investment do we need to make to sell it.
CNC is da bomb, but it's still more costly than gang operations. I'd like to see the math about whether it's cheaper than Jimbob and a router template for slab bodies. (I don't know, but I don't think it's necessary a slam dunk, and I betcha the bandsaw is the slow part of that operation.) Being able to rout the innerds in the same setup is probably why this is CNC. Fret slotting is a saw operation, and just screams for some sort of gang saw. For fanned frets you're looking at 1) low volume, 2) gang saw is out, 3) most of your CNC machines are mills/routers. A slitting saw would require a station with an index pin, and fanned frets would require an extra axis.
The key to this question in all its various forms is basically 1) How many could we sell? 2) What kind of investment do we need to make to sell it.
CNC is da bomb, but it's still more costly than gang operations. I'd like to see the math about whether it's cheaper than Jimbob and a router template for slab bodies. (I don't know, but I don't think it's necessary a slam dunk, and I betcha the bandsaw is the slow part of that operation.) Being able to rout the innerds in the same setup is probably why this is CNC. Fret slotting is a saw operation, and just screams for some sort of gang saw. For fanned frets you're looking at 1) low volume, 2) gang saw is out, 3) most of your CNC machines are mills/routers. A slitting saw would require a station with an index pin, and fanned frets would require an extra axis.
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I am pretty sure I brought up the subject of fanned frets once while on the phone to a Warmoth rep - and that the answer was not in the affirmative. I've had a fanned fret guitar and I really liked it, but I don't think they'd sell enough of them to justify tooling up for it.
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I was told that they can't several years ago, but that'd be great (I would buy it) if they could offer it now.
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