Making A Six String Multi Scale Guitar Installing The Bridges
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this video, I will install the bridges on my 6-string, multi-scale, fan fret guitar project.
Links to my guitar plans and merchandise
www.eguitarplan...
/ highlineguitars
The bridges I used in this video: www.aliexpress...
Got to admit, I didn't know multi-scale guitars were "a thing," until this video series.
That is a very clever idea you had about how to ground the bridges. I noticed that you really cannot see the copper strip at all. And that is a very nice top and finish on the guitar.
I bought those same bridges 4 or 5 years ago off of ali express, they were around 250...they have came way down since...
its SO CLOSE
Beautiful looking guitar. Another way to ground the strings would be to ground one string and then use a metal nut to ground the rest.
Thanks for the bridge recommendation. Looks like a good bridge, but setting the intonation under tension looks like a hassle.
i love those bridges Very nice quality Great job
Really neat bridge design! The positioning of the fine tuners definitely makes sense, especially when you look at other headless guitars where the body kind of "ends" at the bridge so there's some overhang of where those tuners would be. Nice touch that they added a slot for screwdrivers too. Can't wait to see how you mount the pickups!
Cut a big square out of the body to allow access to the fine tuners. :)
@@clutch2827 I hate the way that looks. The last video in this series will offer a couple of alternatives.
Those bridge assembly units are really nice. They are like Strandbergs but the position of the locking grub screw beats the Strandbergs. Then there is the forward/back adjustment top screw. Very nice.
Chris thank you for the great video! I was hoping you could answer a question for me? Maybe a potential video? I will be starting at headless multiscale guitar build soon. My question is, what is the best method for marking out fret slots for a multi scale fretboard by hand? I've tried fret2find and went to a print shop but found the measurements when printed weren't correct. The idea I have now would be to use a micrometer and make precise measures from the nut as far as as I can go, then come down the fret board and use one of the fret slots as a point reference for the next slots. Hope that makes sense! Thanks for all you do!
@@keithhurst6329 I use fret2find and never had a problem with accuracy. It sounds to me like your problem has something to do with the printer accuracy.
@@HighlineGuitars thanks for the reply! Maybe I'll give it another shot and try a different printing company. Thanks for all the content Chris. I know it's a lot of work! I just finished building my work shop and hope at some point to start filming and posting. Need some more experience under my belt before I do! I've built two guitars from scratch so far and currently working on a bass for my niece. Your content played a huge part in giving me the confidence to start building. Thanks again!
Im sure you talked about this at some point but remind me, why no bolt on necks? That neck heel reminds me of prs of course, how its much deeper than fender style necks, but I’ve also seen fret king guitars do that and be bolt on
Hello, Im Sean. Ive been playing guitar since I was a kid, Im 54 now and Im in Luthier school, so this might be kind of a dumb question. But I havent ran into it in school yet as Im a new student. What is the purpose of multi scale guitars? I mean is it made more for drop tuning? or is the quality of sound better, Im not sure I understand. If you dont feel like answering a dumb question I understand. But I do like your videos, they are very informative, intersting and I learn something new everytime, so thank you for making them. Have a great weekend
Sean Elison....
Hi Sean! The general idea is that with a multi-scale/"fanned-fret" guitar you can have the treble side of the guitar at one [shorter] scale length and the bass side at another [longer] scale length. The reasoning for this (as far as I know at least) is that having the treble strings at a shorter scale length can provide access to more frets at a time for leads without moving your hand as much while also providing enough room on the bass side of the neck to not run out of room for chords on the lower strings at those positions. There's also a difference in tension when you have a shorter (less tension) vs longer (more tension) scale, so it makes it easier for bending and other soloing techniques on the high strings while making sure the low strings don't sound too loose like if you drop-tuned them. Having 9's on a 24 3/4ths scale guitar in a drop-D tuning for instance can leave that low E string feeling like a loose rubber band at times whereas the same strings on a 25.5 scale or longer would feel tighter.
I'm sure some others will chime in and correct me on anything I got wrong here -- such is the nature of the internet!😂😂😂
@@kennyayala6189 Thank you for answering , that is so cool how that works. I had no idea about any of that, wow Ive played guitar most of my life and just finding out something new about it. Goes to show you never stop learning as long as your curious. thank you so much.
Sean Elison
Are you setting each bridge so each unique intonation point is falling at the midpoint of each saddle's travel range?
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Beautiful guitar. For headless bridges, I only truss Hipshot, ABM, old Steinberger and a couple others, especially for bass. You're much more trusting of AliExpress than me. I have never purchased off there, but most folks I know that have bought from Ali ended up with counterfeit merchandise. Still, that is one beautiful guitar. Nice work.
And you're right. I took a chance with the bridges and they worked out very well, however, the string retainers for the headstock were garbage.
@@HighlineGuitars good to know about the string retainers. What did you end up doing with the headless then?
@@doughsnakes I used a Guyker string retainer block which worked well, but I ended up scrapping the guitar for the parts.
This is why this channel rocks!
Always very detailed and meticulous!
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