weirdly fretted guitar of the day

axisus

I'd imagine that it would be rather difficult to play the upper frets!

skunkwerx

How would bends work lol?

skullfunkerry

Oo-er! That's very odd... and like @skunkwerx said, how would you bend a string?

I saw these a while back:

http://www.truetemperament.com/

I think Steve Vai has one on one of his guitars... I'm sure they used to do different layouts though: I remember one of them had a fret that looked like the edge of a jigsaw piece, and there was a note that said guitars fitted with that fingerboard wouldn't sound in tune with normally fretted instruments

grappagreen

Weird..

Let's just hope whoever is using this isn't playing in a piano/guitar duet

meltedbuzzbox

looks like it only extends the 3 lowest strings range. 
I understand the principle I just wonder how good the intonation is. 

DulcetJones

I guess barre chords are out of the question.

WezV

not played one like this but i do have plenty of experience with fanned frets.

Barre chords. - they will feel fine for the first half of the fretboard, things will start to feel odd above the 12th on all 8 strings, or above the 19th on the normal 6.   I think that's going to be fine for most things.   Obviously barre chords will be compromised if you are attempting to barre all 8 strings above the 12th.   
in fact, if you just focus on the curve on the first 6 treble strings, its easy to see how barre chords could be easier and match finger curve better as you move up the neck

Bends - they bend just like a normal guitar.   The only issue here is down to whether you rely on muscles memory or your ears for in-tune bends.   If its the first, it will catch you out the first time you do one.  You will adjust quickly.  

Intonation - This isn't a true temperament system.   its just like changing scale length between guitars.    There are some intonation improvements from having a more appropriate string gauge matched to scale length

Sporky

skullfunkerry said:

Oo-er! That's very odd... and like @skunkwerx said, how would you bend a string?

Carefully.

duotone

Interesting this came up on a video I was watching, he plays them earlier in the video but starts talking about what he noticed playing 3 guitars with the True Temperament neck at the 6.15mins mark.

https://youtu.be/c8O1LoargR8

Sassafras

Wouldn't like to crown and polish those frets.