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Marco78 said:
Does Warmoth a custom neck and body??? I don't know!!!  ???

SustainerPlayer said:

Does Warmoth build a custom neck and body??? I don't know!!!  ???  :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin:

ThePhilosopher said:
I'm thoroughly confused as well :dontknow:. This isn't a Warmoth build; it started out that way, but was going to be too difficult/costly for me to finish up starting with a Warmoth body. Aaron at BWGC is building this custom.

Ok!! I don't have read all the 3d!! ;)
 
Here are some completed images; I wasn't able to drive to Austin this week so I'll be going next Wednesday:
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Wow!! :occasion14:

The only thing stopping me from absolutely loving the look of this is that screwed-on Black Water nameplate.  In the pics of just the peghead it works, but in the full body shots it stands out, and not (IMO) in a good way.
 
THIS PICTURE

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...is awesome. The second frame makes the guitar look so damn distorted, but nope! It's all there exactly as it should be. It's like a funhouse mirror guitar. I love it. Nice work!
 
My dad thought you did something to distort the photo. Very cool. :rock-on:

I don't believe I've used that smiley before. Hmmmm....
 
That's really neat. For several years I kept a regular-scale guitar around in what Robert Fripp refers to as New Standard Guitar Tuning - CGDAEG. There are obviously a lot of ways to open things up, but the basic question of how to play great melodies remains... I have two steel guitar tunings to contend with (one ten-string), fretless bass, open-tuned and standard-tuned guitars in six and seven-string versions. And an electric mandolin, tuned of course in fifths. I think a variety of tunings are good for your brain, but it can get a bit harder with too many.

And even on a 26.5" seven-string, the low B strings just don't sound very good to me, nor do the low B's available for 34" and 35" scale basses. You notice people playing these instruments do not spend much time on the low string, certainly not like a bass player rides the low E string. And when I hear a good guitarist referencing a violin partita in standard tuning though, it reminds me that you need to have solid reasons to chase off the smooth paths....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TLMVteNpI

I had some carpal tunnel/trigger finger stuff that was obviously related to seven-string guitar/five-string bass, so I'm back to normal tunings, widths (and string-skipping) for now at least. The seven string forum has a whole group of people chasing after this stuff hard:
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/
Fun group, although often munched by cut'n'pasters.
 
Great Ape said:
GOOD GRIEF!!! :hello2:

Thanks. :D

Stub,

I'm on already on SSO. Thanks for posting that partita, I'm definitely going to try my hand at some more classical pieces (mostly cello suites/etudes). I only use 5 tunings; open Bb, Open C, P5, Eb Standard and Open Bb with a low F when I get another 7 string.
 
ThePhilosopher said:
Agile produces some of the cheapest fanned fret instruments you can get your hands on, and they're pretty cool for the most part. This fan is so extreme for the tuning I'm using requires wildly varied string gauges on a single scale instrument, but other people get fanned instruments because it's far more ergonomic because of the natural bend of the wrist as you move up and down the board and go with 24-25.5" or 25.5-27" fans on 6 or even 7 string guitars. These don't provide much benefit for tension, but allow for the ergonomic benefits.

I have limited mobility in my wrists (getting old sucks).  I tried a Dingwall, and I'm here to tell ya that the "ergonomic benefits" of a fanned fretboard only apply to people with full mobility in their wrists.  From about the 10th-12th fret on down toward the body, it's great.  But from the point the frets start fanning the other way, the wrist has to cant more to get the proper fingering position.  People with good healthy wrist joints don't feel the additional stress, but it's there.
 
Wow, that is beyond stunning. I would love to own something like that. The neck is so beautiful...

I really want to build/try a multiscale/fanned fret...

That small arm roundover contour is getting to be pretty popular these days.
 
Bach wrote the "S&P's" for his violin students as a combination theory and technique lesson, and the cello suites for his cello students. The neat thing about them is this density/transparency thing; it doesn't hardly matter what instrument you play them on or how fast, there's always something added to it by the interpretation. They sound harmonically simple, but if you pull the changes out of every section, there's probably about 12 pop songs outlined in each! It doesn't even matter how much you learn, a couple of measures can keep me bouncing off the walls for a few hours if I get it right (especially on something alien like steel guitar...)  There's actually reasons people keep yakking about "Bach" and "Beethoven" and "Mozart" after all this time, they really did have it goin' on. No TV to watch, what were they gonna do? :dontknow:

(though Bach brewed his own beer & enjoyed it for breakfast & had ten children too.... them Christians! :toothy12:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYRdRnnBYw

I would settle for one NOTE to sound like that. I hate the finicky, "romantic"-type violinists like Itzhak Perlman but the straight-ahead blasters like Hahn, Salvatore Accardo, Henryk Szeryng - there's a reason they call it "violin-like tone"....
 
ThePhilosopher said:
Here are some completed images; I wasn't able to drive to Austin this week so I'll be going next Wednesday:
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:o This build is just awesome in every way. Now I want a fanned fret guitar. Thanks.  :icon_biggrin:
 
Do it. :party07: :rock-on: :guitarplayer2: :headbang1:

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvviFjCHl30
 
Sorry for the necropost, but I was just a little surprised and pleased that I just got to give this baby a whirl at my local Guitar Center.

 

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It's always crazy to see one's past gear resurface after years.  I wish I knew where some of the amps I built and sold are.  After Katrina hit and I moved, the contact information on the rear plates were no longer valid.  You'd think one could use Google!
 
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