Holy SH*T!!!drewfx said:How about these Ritters? http://www.ritter-instruments.com/
This first one is one piece. Not "one piece body" or "one piece neck" but "one piece of wood - total"!
The second one is absolutely RIDICULOUS :binkybaby:
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The second one is absolutely RIDICULOUS :binkybaby:
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drewfx said:How about these Ritters? http://www.ritter-instruments.com/
This first one is one piece. Not "one piece body" or "one piece neck" but "one piece of wood - total"!
My pants are tight!!!
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the third one, I think I need to change my pants now
My wife look at it and said she would understand having to sleep on the couch for that.
Wow, that is sex in motion
when we first met I was playing bass in a band and we were tearing up the local scene till our guitarist decided to go off the deep end doing cocaine with his new girlfriend, She knows My extreme love of good Bass Porn, She has seen me buy bass guitars I will never play onstage because I just love the look.
But that, all my sex fantasies combined.
My wife look at it and said she would understand having to sleep on the couch for that.
Wow, that is sex in motion
when we first met I was playing bass in a band and we were tearing up the local scene till our guitarist decided to go off the deep end doing cocaine with his new girlfriend, She knows My extreme love of good Bass Porn, She has seen me buy bass guitars I will never play onstage because I just love the look.
But that, all my sex fantasies combined.
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drewfx said:
I'm pretty much the only one here who thinks that's the most beautiful bass ever built. Everyone seems to think it's hideous. :sad:
On the other hand, I have a new favorite bass of all time (aesthetically speaking) now.
My new favorite is this Dingwall.
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kboman said:
If I was standing next to one of those, and someone asked if I played bass, "No."
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Oddly enough, Gretsch is even doing the botique guitars:
Some of these are clones of what Ol' Paul designed himself, and some are obviously inspired by that. I'm not exactly sure if these were included in Fender's partial acquisition of Gretsch or not.
Some of these are clones of what Ol' Paul designed himself, and some are obviously inspired by that. I'm not exactly sure if these were included in Fender's partial acquisition of Gretsch or not.
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Velcro said:exaN said:[quote author=line6man]
How do these fretboards even work haha.
It's a fanned fretboard to allow slightly different scale lengths for the higher and lower strings
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Slightly different scale lengths? The 5 strings go from 37" at the B to 32" at the G. I don't know about the 4 strings though.
The idea is that each string can have it's own scale so that the tension and intonation is optimized per string.
chrisg said:
It's not really BS - standard guitar scale lengths and intonation is pretty much an arbitrary hash job as it stands now. We're just used to it.
Fanned frets, Buzz Feiten/Earvana and TT necks are relatively recent methods to rectify the issues. From what I've read by people who have tried it, after a minute or so of mental adjustment fanned frets feel completely natural.
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I have an acoustic with the Buzz Fenton system, it sounds great
Until
I brought it to a tech for a new bridge, He was not aware of the system and put in some weird thing he had to invent
it sounded like shit
I actually have never had it fixed, I got disgusted and filed it under guitars I rarely play, I should go and get it fixed, it was my favorite Box.
Until
I brought it to a tech for a new bridge, He was not aware of the system and put in some weird thing he had to invent
it sounded like shit
I actually have never had it fixed, I got disgusted and filed it under guitars I rarely play, I should go and get it fixed, it was my favorite Box.
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chrisg said:
Why do you say that? It's a perfect solution.
If you adjust the scale length per string, you get the best intonation and balance. You may have noticed that fixed scale length instruments with frets are a compromise. Every string is close to the same scale, and the frets are all in the same place. The only adjustment you have is to set the saddles to intonate at the 12th fret.
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The fanning out may be more ergonimical too. Fret placements are straight whereas hands are not. Similar reasoning with an asymetrical neck countour. Further away from your body, the wrist is comfortable in a different postion than when closer to your body. This fanning out can compensate for it. From all accounts playing on one feels quite natural. Those that have made the transition say that it's effortless. Going back? Not so much.
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I haven't played one of the Dingwall basses, but I have played a few of Novak's guitars, and they're very comfortable to play. I found the higher string tension on the bass strings quite gratifying to play, in terms of the sound they made. Seems like the same thing might apply to the bass.
I wouldn't want to file the nut slots on one of those things without having a few spare blanks to practice on.
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I wouldn't want to file the nut slots on one of those things without having a few spare blanks to practice on.
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chrisg said:
As people said above, this is no BS at all! I'm not sure if I'd have one, because of the look and I preffer the tone of 24.75" scale... But for lots of people this work. Guitars with low tunning usually get the attention on fanned frets. People that like Fender scale tend to like a lot! It's comum to find FF instruments made by luthier...