Yipes! 38" scale Overwater....

My good freind is a luthier and just got finished building a 36" 6 string with wide spacing, I was there when he finished the other night and it is a beast of a bass. I have pretty big hands and it was a full on handfull but sounded huge so I cant even imagine a 38".

 

I thought that with a longer scale length that you could shove more frets in there. If so, then why is he limited to only 24? I could very well imagine 36-40 being crammed in there.

Rock on
Eric

 

Right you are bassmonkey.

 

Well, he could have more frets and still have adequate spacing between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge (for thumbstyle), but what's the point? I've always thought 6-/7-/8-string basses were intended so that the player could have more range in a given position--below the 12th fret, preferably.

 

Don't give Turner any more ideas........"Yeah, 40, that's the ticket, 40 inches."

 

Jesus. First we were talking about strings making up for penile deficiencies, but now that we're onto inches the analogy is frighteningly close

And you don't have to have bigger frets, you can have more, smaller frets. 26-fret Thumb, anyone?

 

Who makes 38" scale strings? or 37" in the case of Novak bridges? Kinda wonder about that...

 

isn't double bass 42"? What is standard? 32"? 33"?

 

Standard for electric is 34", although things from 27" to 38" have been used.

Most short scales are 30", and a lot of 5's and 6's are 35".

 

I've always wanted a 42" scale 7, 8, or 9-String bass, just so i could scare people with it...

 

WOW!!!! Thats a monster bass. I would never, ever be able to play that ogre of a bass.

I think JT is gonna have to get an 8-string with like a 40" scale to beat out Gardner....hehe

 

Double bass is 42".
For electric bass, refer to Embellisher's post.

38" is pretty nuts. And 7-string as well. The B string must sound awesome. Good luck trying to find a 7-string long scale string set for that beast.

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats monsterous!!!!! How do u slap on that thing!!

 

My my.. what a big bass !
You think he's compensating for something ?

 

No, wait!

 

Jaco only nee.......

ah, screw it

 

...that is completely ridiculous.