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A question for owners of Mark Rankin's interchangable fingerboards :

How good (i.e. low) is the action that you get on your guitars ?
Logic seems to tell me that such a system would mean a limit on how close to
the frets the strings can be.

- Drew

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🔗Jean or Colin Jenkinson <jeancolin@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx>

My new millinium resolution was to hound Emmet Chapman and Dr. John
Schneider on that question. I happen to live in there relative areas.

BTW I use a 24TET tuning on my stick by raising the melody side up one
quarter tone.

Colin Jenkinson | nosnikneJ niloC

>From: "Azi of Vajravai Mo'f'ck Mage" <vajravai@hotmail.com>
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>What about interchangable Fingerboard Sticks or Warr guitars?
>that's something that I would find very handy...
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🔗Priest of Mgof'ck Knight of Delta Gamma Phi <vajravai@xxxxxxx.xxxx>

I'd like to have the option of tapping out various JI tunes...
and Frets are practically a necessity for touchstyle (even though you can
tap a fretless bass with great success...)

Hmmm... is your signature a "reflection" of how the strings are arranged on
a stick?
hi-lo | lo-hi
?

"My new millinium resolution was to hound Emmet Chapman and Dr. John
Schneider on that question. I happen to live in there relative areas.

BTW I use a 24TET tuning on my stick by raising the melody side up one
quarter tone.

Colin Jenkinson | nosnikneJ niloC

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🔗Drew Skyfyre <drew_skyfyre@xxxxx.xxxx>

>> I don't understand your logic.
Well, u answered my question anyway. Thanks !

From experience I know how finicky many standard guitars can be when trying
to set the action very low. My concern was that because the fingerboard is
removable, by sliding out sideways, there might be some compromise in the
action to allow for the board to go in & out. And I'm not sure where the
magnet(s?) go on the neck, is it a long flat strip or little bitty ones
embedded in the neck ?

How badly does the fact that the board is magnetically attached affect
sustain ?

Also you refer to truss rod adjustment. Isn't that not a good thing, since
we're talking of a removable fingerboard, which presumably is straight as an
arrow and is held in place by magnets, wouldn't the neck have to be just as
straight to accomodate the board ?

- Drew

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🔗Canright, David <dcanright@xxx.xxxx.xxxx>

Drew,

Tom Stone's magnetic system works like this: the original wooden fingerboard
is removed, and the neck planed down slightly. A thin, flexible stainless
(?) steel sheet is attached. Each fingerboard is made of flat but flexible
laminated layers: bottom is magnetic plastic, like on many refrigerator
magnets; next a thinner stainless steel sheet for strength; then a
translucent plastic layer, same height as the wide flat fret bottoms (the
fret grooves get cut in this layer and the frets are glued in); finally a
thin layer of translucent plastic dyed black on the underside (this must be
cut to fit between the fret tops, covering their bottoms). So each
fingerboard is flat and flexible and magnetic (the neck is not magnetic).
When they are in place, they stay very solidly in place. I have to push very
firmly sideways to budge one, but then when the edge sticks out I can lift
up a bit to ease the attachment. The neck is still as fully adjustable as
ever with the truss rod, though the neck is not quite as strong as
originally since some wood was removed. I can't say I have noticed any
effect on sustain, but I suspect any such effect is minimal. I really think
this design is excellent, and a major improvement over his first approach,
which used channel-lock aluminum and hence was inflexible and prone to
rattles.

David Canright http://www.mbay.net/~anne/david/

🔗John Schneider <johnoschneider@xxxxxxx.xxxx>

The action is the same as any other of my instruments - though I play
classical, so the action is somewhat higher than the steel stringers. Do not
underestimate the amount of high frequency absorption by the magenetic
material, however: it is not unsubstantial!

john schneider

>From: "Drew Skyfyre" <drew_skyfyre@yahoo.com>
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>To: Tuning List <tuning@onelist.com>
>Subject: [tuning] interchangable fingerboard guitars
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:31:58 +0530
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>A question for owners of Mark Rankin's interchangable fingerboards :
>
>How good (i.e. low) is the action that you get on your guitars ?
>Logic seems to tell me that such a system would mean a limit on how close
>to
>the frets the strings can be.
>
>- Drew
>
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