Circle Fretting System

equalsql

Looks interesting.. saw this printed on the truss-rod cover of  an LP copy up for sale on Ishibashi..

p90fool

Well, without having seen or tried it, I'd be wary of it based on the claims in "CFS Features" points 1-6.

Point one is scientifically dubious to say the least, and points 2-6 are total bullshit.

ThePrettyDamned

p90fool said:

Well, without having seen or tried it, I'd be wary of it based on the claims in "CFS Features" points 1-6.

Point one is scientifically dubious to say the least, and points 2-6 are total bullshit.

Yeah, I fail to see how the shape of the fret would give "Fast Resonance".

SimonC

Doesn't setting the intonation correctly compensate for this anyway. 

No need for bent frets.

bertie

SimonC said:

Doesn't setting the intonation correctly compensate for this anyway. 

No need for bent frets.

a) somewhat but a guitar can never ever be 100% correct all the way up the fretbard - hence things like buzz light-year system, plek  etc etc have tried to improve............. but is it really necessary

b) correct

ICBM

Yet another solution in search of a problem.

martinw

Total bollox.

Fanned fret guitars work ok, guitars which deliberately have a different scale length for each string.

Guitars are pretty imprecise things, and the geometry will never be perfect, yet some pretty decent music has been played on them over the last few hundred years.

Bogwhoppit

Was Andrés Segovia aware of it. 

Did Hendrix require it.

But more importantly, is there a Joe Bonamassa signature version ?

EdGrip

imalone

Bogwhoppit said:

Was Andrés Segovia aware of it. 

Did Hendrix require it.

If those were relevant questions we'd still all be playing lutes because they were good enough for John Dowland. Or bashing rocks because they were good enough for Ug (but enough Phil Collins jokes). It's a bad idea because it's a bad idea, nothing to do with Jimi.

But more importantly, is there a Joe Bonamassa signature version ?

Out next week isn't it?