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Well it looks like he took on board my comments about fret width on a 48 fretter.
curved frets is an interesting addition, but your going to need a cnc or a lot of patience with a dremel to do the fret slots the way he suggests.
0.232 string on a 32" scale, thats a major issue for me
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Those last frets on the low strings don't look usable except for as a guide for a slide or thimble (like Ron Thal uses in Guitars Suck). I have no idea how you'd fit your finger tip in them accurately - I have played a guitar fretted for quarter tones before and it was very difficult higher up the neck.
I've got a "History by Fujigen" guitar where they used the "Circle Fretting System", I think they still use it on some guitars.
Unless I've totally misunderstood the idea, the frets are ever so slightly curved to compensate for the fact that the strings splay out a little from the nut to the bridge.
I can't say that I notice any difference at all, to be honest.
oh yeah, i get asked to do 9 strings quite often. at lest often enough for me not to consider it an unusual request. I may do one one day as I know a local player who is after a 9 and it would give me a better opportunity to test and tweak it rather than doing a long distance commission.
I do think they should be fan fret though, I firmly beleive that parallel frets are a massive compromise on string tension, the equivilent in other intruments would be a piano where all the strings are the same length - it just wouldnt work. Parallel frets do obviously work fine on 6 strings, mostly because we are used to the compromise and its part of the sound we expect. But the more range you try and add the more the compromise becomes evident
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yeah, the circle fretting system is interesting and its hard to argue with the logic of it. In reality the slight difference in scale length caused by string splay is not worth worrying about, unless you have a massive string splay the differences are too tiny to make much difference
Does yours sound more in tune on the outer strings than your other guitars?
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Not with me playing it! >:D<
But I'm someone who never finds Les Paul Juniors particularly "out of tune" sounding, so I'm not to be trusted.