@boo that’s a bit cheeky!No surcharge with these guys, but there is a £12 minimum orderhttps://www.ema-models.co.uk/index.php/acrylic-plastic-shapes.html

@booThese guys have 6mm, which is about normal for a dothttps://www.plastock.co.uk/shop-by-shape/rod?colour=yellow

@darrenking in that diagram the ground wires are green and the hot wires are black.The black stranded is I assume a shield, so it goes to ground. It’s a pretty fair bet that black solid goes to groundThough really with…   Read more»

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@darrenking it sounds like you just want a bog standard 2 pickup 3 position wiring (you don’t mention coil taps), do you really need a diagram for that?
 

@boo his thumb is a dead giveaway that he’s really an alien, here to take over the world and snack on our brains

@mattbeels for the most part (and I’ll admit to limited exposure to it), it doesn’t do it for me. But there’s no denying that there are some monster players and some monster guitars associated with the genre (though I’ve never…   Read more»

@russ @darrenkingTaylor’s partner in the Cameroon sawmill project is Madinter, who you can buy from.I just recently found out about this because of an interview with Ben Crowe on sustainability, apparently Crimson buy their ebony from Madinter.https://www.madinter.com/corporate/index.html

@boo I think the hundreds of thousands you have to pay to get a license to use Vanta Black (not to mention that it has some very special application method) probably makes how hard wearing it is rather moot.I think…   Read more»

@booThe multiscale side of things you wouldn’t even notice after a few minutes of playing, they really feel that natural.As for the extra strings, that’s a bit more involved (I’ve not done it myself) but it’s still a guitar. If…   Read more»

Then you have the Distortocaster, where they’re used for a completely

 different reason, with a few extra visual cues they make the neck look like it’s drooping.Apparently, this is a very comfortable guitar to play. As well as the…   Read more»

@boo there are several reasons for fanned frets (also known as multiscale or compound scale).They vary between tonal and ergonomic.Tonally, scale length makes a difference, given the same gauges of strings longer scale lengths tend to favour the bass, making…   Read more»

Having now watched the video I have to agree with @darrenking, in practice this would be an awful system to use, because errors will happen at every step.As an illustration of how the numbers relate it has some educational value.But…   Read more»

@darrenkingJacob of Canna guitars does something similar, but he actually puts a soundhole there. It’s quite a clever workaround of the fact that the hemprock material he uses for the back bowl of the guitar (think Ovation if you haven’t…   Read more»

no allowance is made for this with standard parallel fret positions. @darrenkingThere’s no allowance to make in that case.draw out a rectangular representing a neck (from bridge to nut) with parallel frets.  Now draw a string diagonally from bottom left to…   Read more»

@darrenking That’s rather neat, is it one of yours?

@darrenkingYou’re correct, Martin use Richlite

I’m going to have to draw it out, but it seems to me that an issue with fan frets may be that you have to include the string angle into your calculations, at least for the outside ones (the ones…   Read more»

@darrenkingRichlite and Rocklite are different companies with different products.Rocklite is made from woodhttps://www.rocklite.co.uk/

@darrenking You’re correct that there is no standard for which is the right angle fret. Strandberg seem to make it the zero fret, but they don’t have a big difference in scales (just 1/2 inch between bass and treble).Intuitively the…   Read more»