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Do you have a picture of that?
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It is the drop and run thing that I made a joke about, because it was pretty much all you had done on this site until now.
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Anyway, I'm not arguing over it or derailing the thread further. You had your fun and made your point. The world is a better place.
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here is the 26.5-28" baritone i made shortly after
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If you'd said "Has anyone got a fanned fret guitar? Here are my experiences... [some description of your experiences]. I even made a video to demonstrate my point about how fanned fret guitars sound compared with a regular guitar, but would be keen to hear others' experiences", that's directly encouraging people to engage with the content right here, and you'll likely end up with a really interesting thread, as @WezV has been trying to help achieve. (As a bonus, that would probably also get you more video clicks as well, which I assume you do care about on some level)
@chromatuna Steve Vai has been all about having his frets (OK, his hair) fanned for years. It's quite the meme amongst his fans (of the other persuasion):
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I don't mind a B on a regular 6 string (60 ish gauge) so I figured I'd be alright. Plus I had a Solar 7 string and was pleasantly surprised that it sounded fine with a 54 gauge low B (admittedly that had an evertune bridge so that may have helped - ultimately I found the evertune rattled a bit which I didn't like so I moved it on).
Don't find that 8 string low F# or F can be managed reasonably on anything less than 29 inches though. I had the Ibanez Meshuggah sig 8 string for a bit but decided in the end that the cost of making the low string sound amazing was that the high strings sounded shite and you could barely bend the high E without it snapping, at which point, why bother with 8 strings?
It's been about a year since I got rid of it and I've spent basically that entire time unable to decide whether I want a 29-30" 6 string baritone for playing in F/F# or whether I want a custom fan fret 8. I'm really close to settling on trying an Ibanez SRC6.
You'll be fine with the Vigier, it's all about the player right? I hit hard because I play unplugged most of the time, so it wasn't working for me.
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is there a standard for them.. as in, the length of the 1st string through to the length of the 6th [so all fan frat guitars are the same], or are there differences?
being a lefty spaz, I rarely get to play anything exotic..
but this year at the guitar show Stranberg had a couple of lefty fan frets so I finally was able to try one out..
I struggled with it a little at first.. it messed with my eyes [to be expected I guess]
but as soon as I stopped looking at the neck and played by 'touch' I didn't put a note wrong..
I thought it actually felt rather nice..
If you don’t look at the strings but look at the side dots, like you’d do when playing stood up, your hand seems to already know how to play a fan fret quite quickly. At least below the 12th fret. Well that’s what I found myself. It gets a bit trickier higher up the fretboard when the gaps are smaller
it never occurred to me that you'd choose the centre of the fan and the scale differences..
seriously I had no idea...
and answers my previous question...
also, bending took a little getting used to..
especially the 3rd string because sometimes I'll bend it upwards, others downwards, and the fan made a difference to how that felt...
I reckon though it's something I'd be able to get used to without much time and effort