@boo The 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...

Then you have the Distortocaster, where they're used for a completely Attachment : distortocaster.jpg different reason, with a few extra visual cues they make the neck look like it's drooping....

@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 ...

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 ...

@darrenking Jacob 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 th...

no allowance is made for this with standard parallel fret positions. @darrenking There's no allowance to make in that case. draw out a rectangular representing a neck (from bridge to nut) with parall...

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

@darrenking You'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 in be...

@darrenking Richlite and Rocklite are different companies with different products. Rocklite is made from wood

@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 ...

Now you just need a license to paint it in Vantablack

It's worth a few minutes of your life just watching the video on that page, I had no idea it was such a manual process or that there were so many stages.

Interesting point, honestly hadn’t considered that! @Tej I must watch more videos than you do, it's a pretty common opinion. I've actually never heard a professional luthier say the glue was needed t...

@rocknroller912 the glue in the fret slots isn't to hold the fret in (or at least it shouldn't be), it's to solidify and stiffen the fretboard.

@mattbeels Probably the best explanation of various truss rod types I've come across, from a friend of the channel.

@mattbeels with the price of quality forstner bits I'm not sure that's a saving. I'm thinking of trying one of these for bulk removal.

@boo It's a boo guitar, I think you need to sneak a little shimmer in there!

Hmmm, now there's a thought.. some metal flake in the bottom of the hole, then gluboost tinted yellow. Bit expensive for a one off though.

@boo aren't they a bit subtle for you? they don't glitter!