Any Magma Transpositor Bass owners out there? Curious about dimensions

ghendershot said:

Hi all,

Was wondering if anyone here owned one of the Magma Strings Transpositor basses. I'm curious about the string spacing dimensions at the nut and the bridge.

I did reach out to Magma with the question and they responded with 12mm, but they didn't clarify whether that was nut or bridge when I asked. Which is okay...it's possible they meant both nut and bridge? It doesn't look like it tapers much, but it's hard to tell from pictures. If anyone here owns one and wouldn't mind checking for me, I would be super appreciative!

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Meaculpa said:

I have one. 5 strings. Short scale. Nylon strings. And actually it sounds loud! Like a Spanish guitar. That loud. That's why I purchased it.

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Meaculpa said:

It's a Magma Transpositor Bass

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HaphAsSard said:

@Meaculpa has, or had, a Magma Transpositor Bass:


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As to your question, one can do some eyeballing inference from the closeup picture of the end of the neck:
https://www.magmastrings.com/img/productos/transpositor/cuadro_transp.png
Since scale length is known (25.59"), and consequently so is the distance from nut to 1st fret (1.436256", per whatever fret positioning tool) which happens to look similar to the total (B to G slot) string spread: the spacing at the nut appears to be about 9mm. Based on the above, 12mm at the nut seems to be about right.

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