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09-24-2006, 06:19 PM
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I'm trying to find a custom 6-string bass neck.....I'm hoping to find someone that will do custom frets....anyone have any solutions? |
09-24-2006, 06:47 PM
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09-24-2006, 06:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | what do you mean by custom frets? www.warmoth.com can do sixers
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09-24-2006, 06:58 PM
| | | | I am concidering having frets up to the 7th and then fretless after that.... |
09-24-2006, 11:14 PM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | That's not that big of a deal, but the fretless action might suffer a bit with that set up. Anyone should be able to do it for you. Talk to any of the builders on here, or someone in your area. Good luck with it. |
09-25-2006, 02:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Egypt | | | the pharoah?
are you Egyptian? |
09-25-2006, 08:06 AM
| | | | nah......not egyptian started using that nick back in highschool for online games...dont really know why :P it's just kinda stuck. i found some instruction on the web i may just pull the frets from a freted neck. |
09-25-2006, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cincinnati, OH | | | I second soulmateguitars.com.
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09-25-2006, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | Someone on here had a half fretted, half fretless wishbass, not that I'm suggesting him
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09-25-2006, 05:48 PM
| | | | i sent the soulmateguitars guy an email im sure he may hook it up.....for a price of course. I also saw a tutorial about defretting so if i have to i could do that.... |
09-25-2006, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by thePharaoh i sent the soulmateguitars guy an email im sure he may hook it up.....for a price of course. I also saw a tutorial about defretting so if i have to i could do that.... | I never ordered from soulmate but I did email him with my specs for a bass neck (at that time, he didn't even advertise that he made bass necks). His response was quick and he seemed open to making the neck to my specs (33" 4 string bolt on 24 fret). Reasonable price quote, too. I hope this is your experience as well.
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09-26-2006, 10:16 AM
| | | | he came back and he seems VERY cool. I just need som standard dimensions for a six string bass neck. I need the nut width and the end of the fingerboard width. |
09-26-2006, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Musiclogic That's not that big of a deal, but the fretless action might suffer a bit with that set up. Anyone should be able to do it for you. Talk to any of the builders on here, or someone in your area. Good luck with it. | What if you made the fretless part the same height as the top of the frets? (or almost as high.)
Then you'd have perfect action on both parts... |
09-26-2006, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by klocwerk What if you made the fretless part the same height as the top of the frets? (or almost as high.)
Then you'd have perfect action on both parts... | That's a great idea, and it has been done. It would assume that the perfect action (above the fret crowns) for fretted is the same as the perfect action (above the fingerboard) for fretless. Could be true, but not necessarily.
Also, FWIW, doing this is covered by a patent, which I believe is in force.
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09-26-2006, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by pilotjones Also, FWIW, doing this is covered by a patent, which I believe is in force. | stupid patents...  |
09-26-2006, 03:53 PM
| | | | does anyone know the proper dimensions??? or at least some kind of standard |
09-26-2006, 04:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | what do you mean by proper dimensions, the measurments for a six neck?
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09-26-2006, 04:20 PM
| | | | yea i'm pretty sure i can get the nut width. I just need to know the width for the end of the fretboard. |
09-26-2006, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | it depends on the string spacing you want at the nut and bridge
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09-27-2006, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: tewksbury ma usa iam a hick, | | | send me a pm for the string spaceing u want at the nut and bridge and ill do the math you need. i made a program to do all the math needed in building a bass.
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