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I’m guessing those top frets will produce the sand kind of “plink” you get at the extreme end of an upright fingerboard, you get a note but no sustain. That could be interesting too, but it works visually too. From the body shape, I assume the customer is a Metal Enthusiast?
 
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Gilmourisgod said:
I’m guessing those top frets will produce the sand kind of “plink” you get at the extreme end of an upright fingerboard, you get a note but no sustain. That could be interesting too, but it works visually too. From the body shape, I assume the customer is a Metal Enthusiast?
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Naw, that's a Country machine right there.
 
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This nice piece of curly myrtle is about to become 8 tenor ukulele (errm, I mean piccolo bass) back/side sets. It's pretty crazy how many small instruments you can squeeze out of a board!

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Gilmourisgod said:
I’m guessing those top frets will produce the sand kind of “plink” you get at the extreme end of an upright fingerboard, you get a note but no sustain. That could be interesting too, but it works visually too. From the body shape, I assume the customer is a Metal Enthusiast?
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You peeked didn't you? I haven't heard any clips from him but I'm thinking "Singular Metal" as in Black Hole the epitome of all Metal:woot:!
 
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OK, that upper fret spacing is....challenging. I don't think I could fit even my pointy little stringbean fingers in there. Maybe the guy is a mandolin player on the side. Everybody thinks they need a Kahler, I've come close a couple times and chickened out. I though it might be particularly cool on a fretless, for all those Jaco-esque dive bombs. Arrggghhh! Are those frets actually STONE? How the eff did you install them? No holding out on us, gotta see how you pulled that off.
 
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The frets are actually stone. Black Onyx to be exact. They were installed by "Crystal Frets" out of Colorado. The stone is cut to size and glued into the slots. Levelled and polished after the fact. I am expecting the owner to mostly glissando over the upper frets but I don't really know. I can just about hear the dogs howling now if he does pull off clean notes that high.
 
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cholyoke said:
That is the most absurdly awesome guitar. 8 strings, Kahler tremolo, more points than a shark's mouth and stone frets.
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I like that "absurdly awesome". When the idea was presented to me I wasn't sure how it would work out but as I get closer to completion I think it will have some interesting attributes. Best thing is I get to play it first:bassist:.
 
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TerribleTim68 said:
I want to do something similar for a scarf joint jig.
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I hadn't thought about it but you could just put a block under these clamps and it would work great for that. I may do that to the clamps on the back side. I made it reversible so I can just spin it around for steeper angles. Not sure that's really needed though. Putting riser blocks under them for thicker stock will probably find more use. Thanks for the idea! :thumbsup:
 
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Fat Freddy said:
Hope that you're making one for all of us....:thumbsup:
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I do have to figure out what I'm doing with these! I've been so focused on the enjoyment of building parts that I haven't really thought about what I'm going to do when they're all finished. Everyone in my household already has plenty of instruments (or will very soon). I know a few guys who are big in local ukulele groups so I may be able to sell one or two there but I may have to start a reverb account or something...
 
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