Super-tenor sustain...

Pete Howlett

Well-known member
Joined
Aug 20, 2008
Messages
5,871
Reaction score
614
Location
Wales, UK
I just strung this up with an insane action of 2mm which the third string cannot cope with so it will have to have a new saddle tomorrow...

IMG_1848.jpg

IMG_1849.jpg

The sound is amazing. Neither my iPhone microphone or your Your computer's speakers will do this justice:



Stats:
Scale length 18.75"
English walnut body
Englemann spruce front
8' curve, 16mm taper from to back
Mgurure fingerboard and bedplate
Ebony bridge
Passive pickup
Cellulose finish
Worth browns with .026 wound 4th
 
Last edited:
I used to go with 2mm, but its just silly low and no doable on the C.
 
Top Bottom