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Topic: Which fret board would u choose? |
Johnie King
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 6:35 am |
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Something I would never thought possible with one of my fret board designs made three pro players conpleate amateurs fun too watch them struggle with there grips can u figure out the bad fret board?
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Johnie King
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 7:09 am
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Johnie King
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 7:27 am
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 5:46 pm
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It's not so much the fretboard as the parallel string spacing. That drives some people crazy. Strings are usually closer together at the nut than at the bridge.
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Kevin Fix
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 5:48 pm
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| Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs and Spades. What else is their!!!!! |
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Dale Foreman
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Crowley Louisiana, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 5:51 pm Fretboard
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I think the Derby fretboard is really nice!
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Jerry Berger
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Nampa, Idaho USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 6:22 pm Re: Fretboard
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| I think the Derby fretboard is really nice! |
I agree with you Dale. Here's mine.
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 7:43 am
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My favorite fretboard is the Fessenden longhorn design.
I have put that fretboard on several different brand guitars.
Jerry is very kind in selling me those. 
Erv
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 7:50 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| My favorite fretboard is the Rittenberry longhorn design. |
I've never seen that. Is it different from the Fessenden?
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 8:19 am
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Bob,
My mistake, I meant to say Fessenden.
I've corrected my mistake.
Dang this old timers disease! 
Erv |
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Tom Campbell
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 9:00 am
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I had a Lamar with a neck where the frets "bled" (a printing term) off the neck...drove me absolutely crazy.
Your second picture would restore my sanity! |
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 9:22 am
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What Kevin said.
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Johnie King
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 9:56 am
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| Dose any one of the builders make the bridge an nut parallel so strings are the same? This would be a easy build.I have built lap steel with same string spacing at nut an bridge. |
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Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 4:11 pm Which fret board would u use
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| Old Sho-Bud had fret boards with Chess pieces for the identify of frets. They were real cool I thought back about 1970. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 4:55 pm
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| Johnie King wrote: |
| Dose any one of the builders make the bridge an nut parallel so strings are the same? This would be a easy build.I have built lap steel with same string spacing at nut an bridge. |
That just doesn't feel right to me. 
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Colin Swinney
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 5:05 pm
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I just went from a Sho Bud with black background and all white card logos to one that uses the alternating white and red card logos. ItΓ’β¬β’s SO much easier to quickly identify where I am.
I think a four color design would be even better, I really love the look of the Zum design too, where they are even different shapes. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 5:08 pm Re: Which fret board would u use
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| Bobby D. Jones wrote: |
| Old Sho-Bud had fret boards with Chess pieces for the identify of frets. They were real cool I thought back about 1970. |
Chess pieces on a Sho-Bud? |
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Kevin Fix
From:
Michigan, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 8:12 pm
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| Chess pieces on a MSA for sure. Never seen them on a Bud. |
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Chris Sattler
From:
Hunter Valley, Australia
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 9:29 pm
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| I thought of a good design a while ago. I had intended using it on a lap steel I intend to build as I thought it would be neat. But then I saw exactly the same thing on an old lap steel only this year and probably on this forum so It wonΓ’β¬β’t be original any more. It was to be the four mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, etc. there was to be one per usual fret and all four on the twelfth fret. I can still do it as I doubt these things are copyrighted. |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 1:44 am
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| The Derby fret markers are exactly like the city of Charlotte NC's "queen city" logo. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 7:05 am
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Steel players are really fussy about their fret boards, me included.
I had an Emmons and it didn't seem quite right.
I compared the fret boards with another Emmons I had and noticed that the fret lines were a little wider.
I contacted the Lashleys and they sent me some fret boards with the narrower lines.
Problem solved!!
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Alan Bidmade
From:
Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 11:39 am
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Well, my preference would be for the Williams black and white fretboard, closely followed by the sho-Bud black and white.
I do not care for multi-coloured fretboards.
Guitars (or guitarists) don't seem to need coloured fret markers - nor, I think, do steel guitarists.
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 4:52 pm
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| If you order a Williams, you have your choice of colored or plain white fret markers. I prefer the colored markers. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 6:08 pm
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Builders seem to really lack imagination when it comes to fretboards, i.e. making them visible. The new MSA L-Frets are a step in the right direction, but a little too obvious for my taste. I find it hard to understand how little progress has been made in this area in the last 60 years. (That's over half a century, folks). Hard to fathom we're so "whoopie-wow" now on wood finishes and shiny precision mechanics, but still in the dark ages with one of the simplest things on a guitar - the fretboards. 
Go figure. |
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Al Evans
From:
Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2018 4:44 am
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| Alan Bidmade wrote: |
Well, my preference would be for the Williams black and white fretboard, closely followed by the sho-Bud black and white.
I do not care for multi-coloured fretboards.
Guitars (or guitarists) don't seem to need coloured fret markers - nor, I think, do steel guitarists. |
I thought it was odd at first, but I find the multi-colored fret markers on my Mullen make the higher octave much more intuitive.
I don't use fret markers on 6-string guitars, and prefer having one only at the twelfth fret.
--Al Evans
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