Paul Henneberry
Well-known member
Hi All,
I was thinking of making slightly longer necks with 14 frets to the body on a little batch of sopranos I’ve started. So far, I have made sopranos with 349mm scale lengths and 12 frets to the body as per the basic Grellier plan. I used the stewmac fret calculator to work out 14 frets to the body and a 375mm scale and this would result in moving the bridge about 8mm towards the sound hole. Next up is gluing down the bridge plates which I will have to move as well and I thought I’d ask you guys what you think of that scale length and the implications of moving the bridge before I committed. I have checked and the finished instruments will still fit the hard cases I prefer.
cheers
Paul
I was thinking of making slightly longer necks with 14 frets to the body on a little batch of sopranos I’ve started. So far, I have made sopranos with 349mm scale lengths and 12 frets to the body as per the basic Grellier plan. I used the stewmac fret calculator to work out 14 frets to the body and a 375mm scale and this would result in moving the bridge about 8mm towards the sound hole. Next up is gluing down the bridge plates which I will have to move as well and I thought I’d ask you guys what you think of that scale length and the implications of moving the bridge before I committed. I have checked and the finished instruments will still fit the hard cases I prefer.
cheers
Paul