Scale question

Costs are rising and times are tough.
Please consider a donation to keep this
place going.

Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.

This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.

We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.

Scale question

You are logged in as Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >>Discussions >>Lutherie >>

Page: [1]

Message

<< Newer Topic Older Topic >>

daffeey

Posts: 115
Joined: May 20 2012

Scale question

greetings all,
How do you measure a guitars scale?

Best

_____________________________

from the city of angels

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 7 2013 3:22:53

daffeey

Posts: 115
Joined: May 20 2012

RE: Scale question (in reply to daffeey)

Sorry,
I found it

_____________________________

from the city of angels

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 7 2013 3:28:39

constructordeguitarras

Posts: 1677
Joined: Jan. 29 2012
From: Seattle, Washington, USA

RE: Scale question (in reply to daffeey)

See if this agrees with what you found: Assuming there has been no attempt to improve the intonation by cutting part of the fingerboard off at the nut, the distance from the nut to the center of the 12th fret multiplied by 2 gives the scale length.

_____________________________

Ethan Deutsch
www.edluthier.com
www.facebook.com/ethandeutschguitars
www.youtube.com/marioamayaflamenco
I always have flamenco guitars available for sale.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 8 2013 1:24:48