@darrenking  No worries Darren; thanks for the explanation.  I lived in Lanchester till I went to Poly (remember Polytechnics?) so I don’t remember the Consett Mustang sorry – I do remember the day JFK died though; the day not the…   Read more»

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you wouldn’t want the see the last couple of inches of the fretboard devoid of frets even if they were useless.

One alternative: A nice but simple inlay instead of those useless frets?

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Mmm – this is getting a bit stalky mind Darren!
I’m native – born 1953
Pls elucidate your curiosity…

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Hi Darren, yes it’s Consett 👍

@darrenking  I know what you mean but I think that they upper frets would still be needed purely from a cosmetic point of view. I mean, you wouldn’t want the see the last couple of inches of the fretboard devoid…   Read more»

@darrenking  Yes that makes sense. Even on a full size violin the notes are very close together higher along the fingerboard, so if the frets are closer than the width of a persons finger then it will be hard to…   Read more»

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@russ I hadn’t realised! I’ve listed another 50(!) so that should keep you all going for a while! Let me know if there are any other problems.
Cheers
Darren

Cheers Darren.
🙂🎸🎶🙏

Posted by: @darrenking Hi @russ, Yes, I believe they are still on my eBay listing. As previously, if you purchase direct from me I will credit Mark and Carol with their margin the next time they order something from me….   Read more»

Posted by: @darrenking Hi @russ, Yes, I believe they are still on my eBay listing. As previously, if you purchase direct from me I will credit Mark and Carol with their margin the next time they order something from me….   Read more»

@darrenking  If you add neck stop and body stop together, where I’ve marked in red, then that’s the scale or string length. Hope you can read the page ok. Violin type instruments and early guitars evolved in the same part…   Read more»

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Yes I will try and get a better photo

@darrenking  I’ve just checked my book of violin measurements which is probably a good guide to the convention used for naming all instrument sizes. It shows that 3/4 and 7/8 are not an exact scale down of 4/4 and I…   Read more»

Posted by: @darrenking am also working option kits for one piece neck fret slotting and also for extra wide fretboards, for 7 string bases for example @darrenking Sounds great Darren. Do you still have any of you adjustable neck pocket…   Read more»

@darrenking  i think one problem with scaling down the whole guitar to a smaller size would be string thickness and tension. A standard set of strings would be too slack tuned to standard pitch with a shorter length. Thicker strings…   Read more»

@darrenking Hi Darren, the shortest scale length guitar template that I’ve seen for sale was a 22.5″ I’ve seen mini guitars that have a scale length of just over 16″ but never seen a template that short.  You could be…   Read more»

@darrenking sounds much better than expected. I’ll do a video soon,  I’ve just been enjoying playing it. I honestly play better than I ever have. Well it feels like it anyway 🤣

Hi @darrenking superb! yeah that seems to be the way to go.I will give that a go. Thanks man!

Posted by: @darrenking you’ll never guess what I am making right this very minute!! Yup, ukulele scale templates! It’s taken me a while to get around to it and you do get a new pin with it to fit in…   Read more»

@darrenking Nice:-) I still haven’t used your neck pocket jig ( Its a bit too big for my ukulele neck unfortunately ).That will be for one of my next projects.

@darrenking  I’m not familiar with Maccaferri is it a type of jazz guitar. I did notice the scale on your fret slotting template. I do have a high end Gypsy guitar with a zero fret made by Polark in Israel…   Read more»