Rosewood AND Maple Fretboard

[back2thefutre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9wkPAo1pkk&feature=related

Warmoth must do half/half wood combos for fretboards!!! And also offer True Temperment frets on their site for a resonable price!!!  :glasses10:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

That is not even a good looking one.  Check out some of Vernon Reid's Hamers from the 90s.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Anything goes. Not sure I am a fan of half'n'half fret boards. True temperament could be interesting ...

 

[line6man]

I've seen tons of basses like that.

I know Rob Allen did a half guitar/half bass kind of thing:
(Brazilian Rosewood/Goncalo Alves btw)

There is also a very high end manufacturer that does stuff like that, though the name escapes me right now.

There is stuff like this as well:

 

[Nando Vallart]

I doubt they will do it...

Asked for a rosewood neck with maple fretboard, even with NO guarantee and the answer was NO, said "perhaps the acrylized fingerboards by Larry Davis" and still NO

 

[DangerousR6]

That is not even a good looking one.  Check out some of Vernon Reid's Hamers from the 90s.

I think it looks pretty cool myself...I like it...Would be interesting to play a neck with the True Temperment frets... :dontknow:

 

[DangerousR6]

That is not even a good looking one.  Check out some of Vernon Reid's Hamers from the 90s.

Couldn't find any pics of Reid's hamers, but I was able to locate one of his new sig Parker...Only Parker to ever have a Floyd.... :icon_biggrin:
I must say though, I hate Parker's....

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Reid's Hamers were like the Conklins that Line6man posted.  Rather than split down the middle, they are in and out down the length of the neck.

 

[DangerousR6]

Reid's Hamers were like the Conklins that Line6man posted.  Rather than split down the middle, they are in and out down the length of the neck.

The hamers of his I did see were just rosewood or ebony, with the nike swoosh inlays... :dontknow:

 

[dmraco]

what do the bent or tempredment frets do?

 

[blue313]

what do the bent or tempredment frets do?

It supposedly allows you to play in tune at every fret, even better than compensated nuts.

 

[line6man]

what do the bent or tempredment frets do?

Seriously!?

I could have sworn that this forum has already been through the True Temperament discussions.

 

[Mor Paul]

what do the bent or tempredment frets do?

Seriously!?

I could have sworn that this forum has already been through the True Temperament discussions.

Ha, multiple times.

 

[jay4321]

I missed out on the True Temperment frets discussion before, but they look like a really impractical way of doing things. The Earvanas and Buzz Feiten systems work pretty well and are vastly easier to implement, and even without them a decently set-up guitar isn't that bad.

This reminds me of that story where NASA spent millions money creating a pen that would work in zero-gravity, while the Russians used a pencil. (More myth than fact I know, but you get the point).

 

[line6man]

I'm stealing this image from TalkBass:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The Russians are still using Space Capsules too, but I digress.  The Buzz Feiten and Earvana nut are vast improvements over the standard fret placement, but at best they don't fix the problem, they just make it less of one.  The Buzz Feiten System makes a better attempt by actually moving the frets and modifying the scale length whereas the Earvana Nut tries to fix the scale and chordal differences while doing nothing to fix the problems; the fret placement.  The True Temperment treats each string path individually, hence the funky design.  From those in the know that have played them, the visual aspect is the only bad thing about it.  It seems like bends would have crazy pitch shifts, but appently they don't.  With me, my form and technique or lack thereof, are my biggest inhibitors, not where my frets are located.  With the recent thread of 5 favorite guitarists, none of them are on there because their frets are in the right place.  There on there because in our opinions they are badass players first and foremost.  If there was a such thing as a perfect guitar, you'd still have to play it. 

 

[Dan025]

mixed wood fretboards are cool but unlikely from warmoth, still i'd like to request it because ya never know

"true" temperment is just a name for another temperment. there is no single method of tuning any instrument other than fretless that is perfect, western scale is a mathematical accident, 12 notes evenly spread logrithmically SP? give many near harmonies but no perfect ones other than octave, all attempts to get better harmonies will favor one key to another but some clever work to the nut can get a better balance of intonation across the strings and even compensate to improve the sound of popular cords. a little stretch helps for a couple reasons (octave harmonics are slightly more than an octave) this can be done in the intonation. tune to middle C rather than concert A if you play with a piano as A is often off from the "ideal" do to temperment issues, ask any piano tuner. check intonation of your guitar over after initial setup by playing diads up and down the neck on string pairs and listen for the beats. of coarse this all means tuning by ear.

bendy frets seem to be alittle on the extreme side, nobody complained when the first fretted instruments were built or for the next couple hundred years.
and chances are if you didn't notice it before neither did your audience.

but im not saying that guitar is bogus. their compromise may actually help for most stuff. and if you play one and feel it helps by all means get it. i am just expressing my opinion that the guitar was good enough and this one isn't perfect either.